40. “He has blinded their eyesand hardened their heart,lest they see with their eyes,and understand with their heart, and turn,and I would heal them.”
41. Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
42. Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
43. for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.