And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.
to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear. And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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