John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 13:35
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet ,.... Not Isaiah, as some copies in the times of Jerom read, but Asaph, who is called Asaph the seer, 2 Chronicles 29:30 which is all one as a prophet; vision is one sort of prophecy F4 R. David Kimchi, Shorash. rad. חזה . ; and there was such a thing as prophesying with harps, psalteries and cymbals, as well as in other ways, and with which Asaph and his sons are said to prophesy, 1 Chronicles 25:1 so that he is very... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude ,.... In the hearing of his disciples, whilst in the ship, the multitude being on the shore, in parables ; in the four foregoing ones, and without a parable spake he not unto them : not that he never had preached but in a parabolical way unto them, or that he never did afterwards use any other way of speaking; for it is certain, that both before and after, he delivered himself plainly, and without figures: but the meaning is, that in... read more