now going back into the hebrew scriptures, you'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel, an idea was there long before the days of jesus and the apostles and people's lives were involved in its state, even in those days, let's just let us have a look at one, isaiah forty two  eighteen to twenty  now this terms it slightly different, but when you look at it and analyze it, you realize he's talking about exactly the same thing, it's regarding the nation of israel who turned away from jehovah, they weren't doing what they should be doing, or should've been doing as he's pleading with them look there, that look here, here you deaf ones, well we know the nation of israel weren't all physically deaf, they were like we are, perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them, but