For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired 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.
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Gill's Exposition
For I tell you that many prophets and kings,.... As Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, who were prophets, as well as patriarchs, and David, Solomon, and others:
have desired to see those things which ye see,…
Adam Clarke
Many prophets - See on Mat 13:11, Mat 13:17 (note).
Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles, when he went up, not openly, but as it were in secret (Joh 7:10), having sent abroad so great a…
Cambridge Bible
prophets and kings e.g. Abraham, Gen 20:7; Gen 23:6; Jacob, Gen 49:18; Balaam, Num 24:17; David, 2Sa 23:1-5.
and have not seen them Joh 8:56; Eph 3:5-6; Heb 11:13.
"Save that each little voice in…
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