Matthew 13:16

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15HASHMEIN LEV HAAM HAZEH VAZNAV HACHBEID VEINAV HASHA, PEN YIREH VEINAV UVEAZNAV YISHMAH ULEVAVO YAVIN, VSHAV NRAFAH LOH. + 13:15 Isa 6:9-10 (For the heart of this people has been made dull, and [their] ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes are shut, lest they see with the their eyes and with [their] ears they hear, and with the lev (heart) they understand and they turn and I will give them refuah [healing]).

17For truly I say to you that many Neviim and tzaddikim desired to see what you see, and they did not see, + 13:17 it and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear it.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Ashrey ANIYEI HARUACH + 5:3 Isa 66:2 (Blessed, Happy are the poor in spirit) for theirs is the Malchut HaShomayim.

Luke 2:29And now, Adonoi, dismiss Your eved in shalom, according to Your dvar (word);

John 20:29And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Because you have seen Me, you have emunah (faith)? Ashrey (Happy) are the ones not having seen and having emunah.

2 Corinthians 4:6Because Hashem is the One who said, “Let Ohr shine out of choshech” + 4:6 Gn 1:3; Isa 9:2 who shone in our levavot for an illumination of the da'as of the kavod of Hashem in the face of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. + 4:6 2C 3:18

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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