Matthew 13:16

But blessed are your eyes which see, and your ears which hear:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 is become gross, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have shut, that they may not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I heal them.

17for, Amen I say unto you, that many prophets and just ones have desired to behold what you see, and have not beheld, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3BLESSED (are) the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 2:29Now dismiss thy servant, my Lord, according to thy word, in peace;

John 20:29Jeshu saith to him, Now that thou hast seen, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen me, and have believed.

2 Corinthians 4:6For Aloha, who said, Let light arise from darkness, hath arisen in our hearts; that we should be illuminated by the knowledge of the glory of Aloha in the face of Jeshu Meshiha.

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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