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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 13:17 - 13:17
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For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired - rather, “coveted.”
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 - Not only were the disciples blessed above the blinded just spoken of, but favored above the most honored and the best that lived under the old economy, who had but glimpses of the things of the new kingdom, just sufficient to kindle in them desires not to be fulfilled to any in their day. In Luk 10:23, Luk 10:24, where the same saying is repeated on the return of the Seventy - the words, instead of “many prophets and righteous men,” are “many prophets and kings”; for several of the Old Testament saints were kings.