Discovery BoxMatthew 13:13-14 
Context13:13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand. 13:14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:
‘You will listen carefully 1 yet will never understand,
you will look closely 2 yet will never comprehend.
Matthew 15:17
Context15:17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer? 3
Matthew 16:9
Context16:9 Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Matthew 16:11
Context16:11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
Matthew 24:15
Context24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation 4 – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
1 tn Grk “with hearing,” a cognate dative that intensifies the action of the main verb “you will listen” (ExSyn 168-69).
2 tn Grk “look by looking.” The participle is redundant, functioning to intensify the force of the main verb.
3 tn Or “into the latrine.”
4 sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167
