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MATTHEW 13:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:15Matt 13:17
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
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.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:16

The disciples understanding that the things which were spoken by the Lord to the people were obscure, desired to hint to Him that He should not speak in parables to them. 'And his disciples came to him, and said, Why speakest thou to them in parables?'

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · ap. Anselm

Wherein it is worthy admiration, that the disciples who desire to learn of Him, know when they ought to ask Him, for they do not this before the multitude. This Matthew declares, when he says, 'And they came to him;' and Mark more expressly says, that 'they came to him when he was alone.' [Mark 4:10]

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom. xiv

We must enquire how they could come to Him at that time when Jesus was sitting in the ship; we may understand that they had at the first entered into the ship, and standing there, made this enquiry of Him.

Jerome · 4th century
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