Matthew 13:16

Your eyes are blessed, for they see. Your ears are blessed too, for 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

15They have a hard-hearted attitude, they don't want to listen, and they've closed their eyes. If they didn't they might be able to see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand in their minds. Then they could return to me and I would heal them.’

17I'm telling you, many prophets and good people longed to see what you're seeing, but didn't see it. They longed to hear what you're hearing, but didn't hear it.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3“Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually poor, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Luke 2:29“Lord and Master, now you can let your servant die in peace as you promised,

John 20:29“You trust in me because you've seen me,” Jesus told him. “Happy are those that haven't seen me yet still trust in me.”

2 Corinthians 4:6For God who said, “Let light shine out of the darkness,” shone in our minds to illuminate the knowledge of God's glory 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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