Quotes About Insight

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

He who has ears, let him hear.

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

This is why I speak to them in parables: ëThough seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.í

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ëYou will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Peter said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

“Do you still not understand?” Jesus asked.

Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

See, I have told you in advance.

And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,

Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,

so that, ëthey may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.í”

Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”