Matthew 13:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ “How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear! ¹⁷ I tell all of you^[a] with certainty, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.”

Jesus Explains the Parable about the Farmer^(A)

¹⁸ “Listen, then, to the parable about the farmer.