Matthew 13:16

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 is become gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn, and I shall heal them.

17For verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what ye are beholding, and did not see, and to hear what ye are hearing, and did not hear.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Happy the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 2:29Now, Lord, thou lettest thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;

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

2 Corinthians 4:6Because it is God, who commands light to shine out of darkness; who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of 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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