Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 13:10-17
by: Victoria Shephard.
“Blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear,” Jesus said. But verse 17 makes it clear that this statement does not apply to the parable he told just before this. So what is it that the disciples saw and heard that “many prophets and righteous men” (v. 17) didn’t? The disciples had something greater than any of the great people of the Old Testament. They were privileged to see the Messiah and the Gospel in all its fullness. Their faith that God would keep his promises had become sight—they had Jesus with them, the living Word.