16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.


In Context

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which said, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive:

15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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

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

18 Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

Matthew 13:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16|But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16'And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,