But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. The beatitude for the disciples' seeing eyes and hearing ears is the reverse of the Isaiah quotation's judgment on the seeing-but-not-seeing crowd. The disciples' seeing is a gift — verse 11 said to you it has been given — and the beatitude celebrates the gracious gift rather than the disciples' natural superiority.

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