Kisah Para Rasul 28:27

28:27 For the heart of this people has become dull, ¹ 

and their ears are hard of hearing, ² 

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, ³  and I would heal them.”’ ⁴ 

[28:27]  ¹ tn Or “insensitive.”

[28:27]  sn The heart of this people has become dull. The charge from Isaiah is like Stephen’s against the Jews of Jerusalem (Acts 7:51-53). They were a hard-hearted and disobedient people.

[28:27]  ² tn Grk “they hear heavily with their ears” (an idiom for slow comprehension).

[28:27]  ³ sn Note how the failure to respond to the message of the gospel is seen as a failure to turn.

[28:27]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10.