Mat 11:25-27, 13:16-17 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Praises the Father and Invites the Disciples to Come to Him At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.

Matthew 11:25-27

25 Jesus Praises the Father and Invites the Disciples to Come to Him Luke 10:21-22At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.Ps 8:2; Matt 16:17; Luke 10:21; 1Cor 1:19, 27; 2:8; 2Cor 3:14 26 Yes, Father, for this is what was pleasing to you. 27 All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.Matt 28:18; Luke 10:22; John 1:18; 3:35; 6:46; 10:15; 13:3; 17:2; 1Cor 15:27

Matthew 13:16-17

16 “How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear!Matt 16:17; Luke 10:23-24; John 20:29 17 For truly I tell you, 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.”Heb 11:13; 1Pet 1:10-11

Jesus Explains the Parable about the Sower Mark 4:13-20; Luke 8:11-15