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


In Context

13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

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

17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.

18 |Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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