Isaiah 48:8
48:8 You did not hear,
you do not know,
you were not told beforehand.
For I know that you are very deceitful;
you were labeled a rebel from birth.
Exodus 4:11
4:11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Job 33:16
33:16 Then he gives a revelation to people,
and terrifies them with warnings,
Proverbs 20:12
20:12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees –
the Lord has made them both.
Jeremiah 6:10
6:10 I answered,
“Who would listen
if I spoke to them and warned them?
Their ears are so closed
that they cannot hear!
Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them.
They do not like it at all.
Mark 7:32-37
7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
7:33 After Jesus
took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s
ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.
7:34 Then
he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, “
Ephphatha” (that is, “Be opened”).
7:35 And immediately the man’s
ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.
7:36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.
7:37 People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Mark 9:25-26
9:25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
9:26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”
Luke 7:20-23
7:20 When
the men came to Jesus,
they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask,
‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’”
7:21 At that very time
Jesus
cured many people of diseases, sicknesses,
and evil spirits, and granted
sight to many who were blind.
7:22 So
he answered them,
“Go tell
John what you have seen and heard:
The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the
deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.
7:23 Blessed is anyone
who takes no offense at me.”