Chiasm
Matthew 13:13–18
Matthew 13:13–188 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables:
- B because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
- C 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith,
- D By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
- E 15 and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
- F For this people's heart is waxed gross,
- G and their ears are dull of hearing,
- H and their eyes they have closed;
- H' lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
- G' and hear with their ears,
- G and their ears are dull of hearing,
- F' and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- F For this people's heart is waxed gross,
- E' 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see:
- E 15 and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
- D' and your ears, for they hear.
- D By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
- C' 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired
- C 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith,
- B' to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
- B because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
- A' 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.