Matthew 13:16

But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your eares, for they heare.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15For this peoples heart is waxed fat, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and should vnderstand with their hearts, and should returne, that I might heale them.

17For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, and righteous men haue desired to see those things which ye see, and haue not seene them, and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.

Read all of Matthew 13

Cross References

Matthew 5:3Blessed are the poore in spirit, for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.

Luke 2:29Lord, nowe lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace, according to thy woorde,

John 20:29Iesus said vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seene me, thou beleeuest: blessed are they that haue not seene, and haue beleeued.

2 Corinthians 4:6For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Matthew 13:16