Lexicon :: Strong's G189 - akoē

Then the news about him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And he healed them.

“Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,

but never understand;

you will look and look,

but never perceive.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus.

“You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet.

At once the news about him spread throughout the entire vicinity of Galilee.

Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly.

“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be alarmed; these things must take place, but it is not yet the end.

When he had concluded saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:[fn]

Lord, who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

“Because what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these things mean.”

“when he said,

Go to these people and say:

You will always be listening,

but never understanding;

and you will always be looking,

but never perceiving.

But not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?[fn]

So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard ​— ​

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.

For we also have received the good news just as they did. But the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith.[fn]

We have a great deal to say about this, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

(for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) ​— ​