This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:
”Lord, who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
”He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turn—and I would heal them.”
Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
There is a lot in this short passage from Isaiah. John includes these words from long ago because they refer to a human condition rather than a particular time and place.
So what is the condition that Isaiah is referring to? Unbelief?
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