Luke 10:24

“But what fatuity it argues to say or think this the Lord Himself testifies to His disciples, when He says, Many kings and prophets have desired to see the things which ye see, and have not seen them (Matth. xiii. 17; Luke x. 24).” — the author cites it

Chapter LXII.—Of the Harmony Subsisting Between Matthew and Mark in the Accounts Which They Offer of the Time When He Was Asked Whether It Was Lawful to Put Away One’s Wife, and Especially in Regard to the Specific…

““How then,” says one, “did He say Himself, ‘Many prophets 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’? ( Luke x. 24.)” — the author cites it

“…look also into the next words, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things which ye see, for I tell you that prophets have not seen the things which ye see,” you will find that they follow from the sense above, that no man indeed had come to the knowledge of God as he ought to have done, since even the prophets had…” — editor's note: Luke x. 23, 24.

Having said above, No one knoweth who the Father is but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal him; He pronounces a blessing upon His disciples, to whom the Father was revealed through Him. Hence it is said,…

He turns to them indeed, since He rejected the Jews, who were deaf, with their understandings blinded, and not wishing to see, and gives Himself wholly to those who love Him; and He pronounces those eyes blessed…

Now He blesses them, and all truly who look with faith, because the ancient prophets and kings desired to see and hear God in the flesh, as it follows; For I say unto you, that many prophets and kings have desired,…

Matthew more clearly calls them prophets, and righteous men. For those are great kings, who have known how, not by yielding to escape from the assaults of temptations, but by mastering to gain the rule over them.

Now from this saying many imagine that the prophets were without the knowledge of Christ. But if they desired to see what the Apostles saw, they knew that He would come to men, and dispense those things which He did.…

For those looking afar off saw Him in a glass and darkly, but the Apostles having our Lord present with them, whatever things they wished to learn had no need to he taught by angels or any other kind of vision.

But why does he say that many prophets desired, and not all? Because it is said of Abraham, That he saw the day of Christ and was glad, (John 8:56.) which sight not many, but few attained to; but there were other…

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

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Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Origen on Luke 10:23–24 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.9.

Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 10:23–24 (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 10:23–24 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 7.

Matthew 11:4 and Luke 10:24 share the same wording (10 words).

Matthew 13:17 and Luke 10:24 share the same wording (32 words).

Luke 10:24 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 1:18 (8 words in common).

Luke 10:24 takes up the words of Judith 9:5 (8 words in common).

Luke 10:24 takes up the words of Judith 9:6 (8 words in common).