Mark 7:6

7:6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart ¹  is far from me.

Acts 28:25-27

28:25 So they began to leave, ²  unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors ³  through the prophet Isaiah 28:26 when he said,

‘Go to this people and say,

“You will keep on hearing, ⁴  but will never understand,

and you will keep on looking, ⁵  but will never perceive.

28:27 For the heart of this people has become dull, ⁶ 

and their ears are hard of hearing, ⁷ 

and they have closed their eyes,

so that they would not see with their eyes

and hear with their ears

and understand with their heart

and turn, ⁸  and I would heal them.”’ ⁹ 

¹ tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

² tn The imperfect verb ἀπελύοντο (apeluonto) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

⁴ tn Grk “you will hear with hearing” (an idiom).

⁵ tn Or “seeing”; Grk “you will look by looking” (an idiom).

⁶ tn Or “insensitive.”

⁷ tn Grk “they hear heavily with their ears” (an idiom for slow comprehension).

⁸ sn Note how the failure to respond to the message of the gospel is seen as a failure to turn.

⁹ sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10.