(53) Word.

But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. (Matt 10:17-20)

O Lord God, almighty King, all things are in your power, and there is no one to oppose you (Esther C:2)

But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’ «When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. (John 15:25-27)

And he replied: Go and say to this people: Listen carefully, but you shall not understand! Look intently, but you shall know nothing! You are to make the heart of this people sluggish, to dull their ears and close their eyes; Else their eyes will see, their ears hear, their heart understand, and they will turn and be healed. (Is 6:9-10)

Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek 12:2)

As he passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, «Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?» Jesus answered, «Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. (John 9:1-3)

He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, «Ephphatha!» (that is, «Be opened!») And (immediately) the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, «He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak.» (Mark 7:33-37)