Matthew 13:16

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

English Majority Text (NT)

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 become dull, 1 and their ears are hard of hearing, 1 and their eyes have closed, 1 lest they should see with their eyes, 1 and hear with their ears, 1 lest they should understand with their hearts and turn back, 1 that I should heal them.’

17For assuredly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and they did not see, and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear.”

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 2:29“Lord, now You are releasing Your servant in peace, 1 According to Your word; 1

John 20:29Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” 1 The Purpose of This Book

2 Corinthians 4:6Because it is God who commanded 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 Jesus Christ. 1 Treasures in Jars of Clay

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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