Gospel for the Day

Turning to the disciples in private he said,
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."


Blessed are the disciples indeed. I wonder if the disciples were aware of how lucky they were to be eyewitnesses to Jesus. But then again, maybe these things can only be appreciated in retrospect (after all, it had to take the coming of the Holy Spirit for them to understand what had happened) and being eyewitnesses did lead them a lot of them into trouble (like Stephen who was stoned to death and Peter who was crucified).