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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 13:13 - 13:13
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Therefore speak I to them in parables - which our Lord, be it observed, did not begin to do till His miracles were malignantly ascribed to Satan.
because they seeing, see not - They “saw,” for the light shone on them as never light shone before; but they “saw not,” for they closed their eyes.
and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand - They “heard,” for He taught them who “spake as never man spake”; but they “heard not,” for they took nothing in, apprehending not the soul-penetrating, life-giving words addressed to them. In Mark and Luke (Mar 4:12; Luk 8:10), what is here expressed as a human fact is represented as the fulfillment of a divine purpose - “that seeing they may see, and not perceive,” etc. The explanation of this lies in the statement of the foregoing verse - that, by a fixed law of the divine administration, the duty men voluntarily refuse to do, and in point of fact do not do, they at length become morally incapable of doing.