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for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.
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Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
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“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”
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Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
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What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,
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All Israel Will Be Saved
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,
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They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
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do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
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But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”
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God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
