Matthew 13:16

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

17for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see [them], and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear [them].

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.

Luke 2:29Lord, now thou lettest thy bondman go, according to thy word, in peace;

John 20:29Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed: blessed they who have not seen and have believed.

2 Corinthians 4:6Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face 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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