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Acts 28:27 Explained in Context
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Verse 27. 27For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
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Role in This Section
Describes calloused heart, dull ears, closed eyes, and resisted healing.
Read It With
- Acts 28:23–28:29
Read Acts 28:27 with 28:23–28:29. In isolation, this contribution—describes calloused heart, dull ears, closed eyes, and resisted healing—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Many visit Paul, who expounds God's kingdom and persuades from Moses and the prophets; some believe and others do not, and Paul applies Isaiah's hardening oracle before announcing Gentile hearing.
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Read Acts 28:23–28:29 — A day of scriptural persuasion brings divided responseSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 28:23–28:29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 28:23-28:29
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