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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:34-52

Jesus Speaks To His Disciples In Parables So That Their Eyes May Be Opened (13:34-52). This next part-section is also in the form of a chiasmus. Analysis. a Jesus speaks in parables not only for the sake of the crowds, but also for the sake of His disciples, so that their eyes may be opened to the lessons of the past (Matthew 13:34-35). b The explanation of the parable of the wheat and the darnel which leads up to the end of the age and the destiny of the unrighteous and the righteous... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:47-49

The Parable of the Dragnet (13:47-49). This parable parallels that of the good and the bad seed, the wheat and the darnel (Matthew 13:24-30). But whereas in the explanation of the first parable there is a period of activity followed by a final emphasis on the glory that awaits those who are in the Kingly Rule of Heaven (Matthew 13:43), the emphasis in this parable is on the final acts of angels in judgment and on the fire that awaits those who are not in the Kingly Rule of Heaven (Matthew... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:49

“So will it be in the end of the world (age), the angels will come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.” The central point behind this parable is the fate of the ‘bad’ fish (compare Ecclesiastes 9:12). They illustrate the fact that the angels will come forth at the end of the age (for the phrase compare Matthew 13:40) and will separate the ‘evil’ (poneros) from among the righteous.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:44-52

Matthew 13:44-1 Thessalonians : . Further Parables of the Kingdom.— The treasure and the pearl ( Matthew 13:44-1 Corinthians :) are one, and have one point— everything must be sacrificed for the highest good, the Kingdom. This urgent, intense wholeheartedness is characteristic of Jesus. The question of concealment, the conflict between individual salvation and social duty, is not to be pressed here. Yet note that, while one man attains the summum bonum, as it were, by accident, another does... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 13:47-50

The scope of this parable is much the same with that of the tares, to teach us, that while the church is in this world there will be in it a mixture of good and bad, a perfect separation of which one from another is not to be expected until the day of judgment. Again, the kingdom of heaven. This term signifieth the whole dispensation and administration of the gospel, both the grace dispensed in it, and the means of that grace which is administered under it. I should here interpret it of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 13:44-52

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 13:47. Net.—The reference is to the large drag-net or seine, [σαγήνη—hence sagena (Vulgate) and English sean or seine]. One end of the seine is held on the shore, the other is hauled off by a boat and then returned to the land (Carr).Matthew 13:52. Instructed unto the kingdom of heaven.—The new law requires a new order of scribes who shall be instructed unto the kingdom of heaven—instructed in its mysteries, its laws, its future—as the Jewish scribes are instructed in the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 13:3-50

Matthew 13:3-50 The Parables of the Kingdom. I. Taking these seven parables all together, notice, first, the fact that our Lord, in describing the kingdom of heaven, did deliberately use many parables, and those strikingly different from one another. The kingdom of heaven is a many-sided thing, and there are many ways of looking at it, all of which may be true ways, though differing very greatly. II. The kingdom of heaven, as Christ expounded it, is the Gospel, the word of salvation, everywhere... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 13:47-50

DISCOURSE: 1366THE NETMatthew 13:47-50. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it urns full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.MEN are forcibly impressed by similes... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 13:49

end of the consummation of the age. Matthew 24:3. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 13:1-58

Now as we enter into the thirteenth chapter, we come into the area of the parables that deal with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. And in these we have more or less a key to all parables.And years ago when I was in seminary I had a very smart professor who exhorted us young seminarians to not preach from the parables until we've been pastoring for at least thirty years. I now qualify. And I wish I had back a lot of those sermons that I preached from the parables when I thought my... read more

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