Luke 10:24 — Community Reflections

LUKE 10:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”

For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it — the prophets who predicted and the kings who anticipated the messianic arrival did not see its fulfillment. The disciples see what the greatest figures of Israel's history longed to see but died without seeing. The privilege of the historical moment is the ground of the blessing.

Church Fathers on Luke 10:24

Having said above, No one knows who the Father is but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal him; He pronounces a blessing upon His disciples, to whom the Father was revealed through Him. Hence it is said, And he turned him to his disciples, and said, Blessed &c.
Theophylact · 11th century

He turns to them indeed, since He rejected the Jews, who were deaf, with their understandings blinded, and not wishing to see, and gives Himself wholly to those who love Him; and He pronounces those eyes blessed which see the things no others had seen before. We must however know this, that seeing does not signify the action of the eyes, but the pleasure which the mind receives from benefits conferred. For instance, if any one should say, He has seen good times, that is, he…
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Matthew more clearly calls them prophets, and righteous men. For those are great kings, who have known how, not by yielding to escape from the assaults of temptations, but by mastering to gain the rule over them.
Bede · 8th century

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