Matthew 13:16

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, 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

15for the heart of this people has grown callous, 2 their ears bearly hear, 2 they have closed their eyes; 1 so as to not see with their eyes, 2 hear with their ears, 2 understand with their heart, 1 and would make teshuvah ·complete return in repentance· again; 2 so that I could heal them.’ + 13:15. (14-15) Quoted from Is 6:9-10

17+ 13:17. MPr: “I will take you, O King Messiah, and make you to go up into my Temple. There you shall teach me to tremble before Yahweh, and to walk in His ways. There we shall hold the Feast of Leviathan, and drink the old wine, which has been kept in its grapes from the day the world was created, and eat of the pomegranates and of the fruits which are prepared for the just in the Gargen of Eden.” (Targum Song of Songs 8:1) A prominent tradition in Judaism is, Leviathan’s purpose is to be the main course in the feast of righteous at the Garden of Eden. (Talmud Baba Batra 75). (Song of Songs 8:1) For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and upright men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit! 2 for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (God). 1

Luke 2:29“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, 2 according to your word, in peace; 1

John 20:29Yeshua [Salvation] said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have trusted. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have trusted.”

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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