For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to behold what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.
But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
And having turned to the disciples apart he said, Happy the eyes seeing what ye see:
And, behold, a certain skilled in the law stood up, tempting him, and saying, Teacher, what having done shall I inherit eternal life
Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he might see my day: and he saw, and rejoiced.
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise: