Matthew 13:17

for, 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.

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

In The King James Version

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them .

In Context

16But blessed are your eyes which see, and your ears which hear:

18You, then, attend to the comparison of the seed:

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Cross References

Luke 10:24for I tell you that prophets many and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard.

Ephesians 3:5which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to his holy apostles and to his prophets by the Spirit;

Hebrews 11:39And these all, of whom there hath been (such) a testimony concerning their faith, received not the promise;

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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