Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 12 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.' This is the other classic seeing-not/hearing-not oracle, paired with hardness; its conjunction with rebellion coheres with Mark's hardened-heart charge in v.17.
High confidenceEzekiel's 'they have eyes to see but see not, ears to hear but hear not, for they are a rebellious house' is the third member of the prophetic obduracy cluster Luke draws on. Coherence with the seeing/hearing motif is strong; contested only as to whether Luke intends it specifically alongside Isaiah.
Medium confidenceEzekiel's rebellious house 'which have ears to hear, and don't hear' supplies nearly the exact idiom of the call to hearing in 4:9 and 4:23. The verbal overlap (ears to hear) and shared context of obstinate non-perception give good volume and coherence with Mark's hardening motif.
Medium confidence'A rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear' — the same idiom of perceptual organs that fail in the obstinate.
Medium confidence