Matthew 13:16

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

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous 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, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

John 20:29Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

2 Corinthians 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God 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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