Matthew 13:16

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 hath grown fat, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and should hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should turn; and I should heal them.

17For verily I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men longed to see what ye see, and did not see it; and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear it.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

Luke 2:29My Lord, now release thou thy servant in peace, as thou hast said:

John 20:29Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have not seen me, yet believe.

2 Corinthians 4:6Because God, who commanded the light to arise from darkness, hath himself shined in our hearts, that we might be illuminated with the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Jesus the Messiah.

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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