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Is fulfilled (anaplēroutai). Aoristic present passive indicative. Here Jesus points out the fulfilment and not with Matthew’s usual formula (hina or hopōs plōrēthēi to rhēthen (See note on Mat 1:22). The verb anaplēroō occurs nowhere else in the Gospels, but occurs in the Pauline Epistles. It means to fill up like a cup, to fill another’s place (1Co 14:16), to fill up what is lacking (Phi 2:30). Here it means that the prophecy of Isaiah is fully satisfied in the conduct of the Pharisees and Jesus himself points it out. Note two ways of reproducing the Hebrew idiom (infinitive absolute), one by akoēi the other by blepontes. Note also the strong negative ou mē with aorist subjunctive.