Matthew 13:16

But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

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In The King James Version

But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

In Context

15For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

17For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see the things that ye see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that ye hear, and did not hear them.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

Luke 2:29Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word,

John 20:29Jesus says to him, Because thou have seen me, thou have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.

2 Corinthians 4:6Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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