If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: ‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

when he said, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.