cwǣdon tō hym, For hwig spycst þū tō hym mid bigspellum?[1]
11. Đā andswarode hē hym, For þām þe ēow is geseald tō witanne heofena rīces gerȳnu, and him nys nā geseald.
12. Sōþlīce þām þe hæfþ, him byþ geseald, and hē hæfð; sōþlīce sē þe næfð, and þæt þe hē hæfð him bið ætbrōden.[2]
13. For ðām ic spece tō him mid bigspellum; for þām þe lōciende hig ne gesēoþ, and gehȳrende hig ne gehȳraþ nē ne ongytaþ:[3]
14. þæt on him sī gefylled Esaias wītegung, Of gehȳrnysse gē gehȳraþ, and gē ne ongytaþ; and lōciende gē gesēoþ, and [gē] ne gesēoð.[4]
15. Sōþlīce þises folces heorte is āhyrd, and hig hefelīce mid ēarum gehȳrdon, and hyra ēagan beclȳsdon; þē lǣs hig ǣfre mid ēagum gesēon, and mid ēarum gehȳron, and mid heortan ongyton, and sīn gecyrrede, and ic hig gehǣle.[5]
16. Sōþlīce ēadige synt ēowre ēagan, for þām þe hig gesēoþ; and ēowre ēaran, for þām þe hig gehȳraþ.[6]
17. Sōþlīce on eornust ic ēow secge þæt manega wītegan and rihtwīse gewilnudon[7] þā þing tō