Matthew 13:16

But happy are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Because the heart of this people is waxed gross, and they heard heavily with their ears, and closed their eyes; lest they may see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I shall heal them.

17Truly I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see those things which you see, and saw them not; and to hear those things which you hear, and heard them not.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit: because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

Luke 2:29Now, O Lord, thou art letting thy servant depart, in peace according to thy word;

John 20:29Jesus says to him, Because you have seen me, you have believed: happy are those not seeing, and believing.

2 Corinthians 4:6Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of 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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