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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 13:44-52

3. The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Parables, and Parabolical Close of this Section. Matthew 13:44-5244     Again,35 the kingdom of heaven is like unto [a] treasure hid in a [the, τῷ] field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth [which a man found, and concealed;], and for joy thereof [he] goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.45     Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman [merchant],36 seeking 46goodly pearls: Who [And],37 when he had found one pearl of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 13:44-50

Securing Treasure; Rejecting the Bad Matthew 13:44-50 The parables of treasure and pearl are a pair. They describe the various ways we come to know God’s truth. Some happen on it suddenly. They are pursuing the ordinary vocations of life when suddenly the ploughshare rings against a box of buried treasure. The husbandman is suddenly rich beyond his dreams. But in other cases religion is the result of diligent search. Man cannot be happy without God. He goes from philosophy to philosophy,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 13:1-58

This chapter contains the seven parables of the Kingdom. The reason for the parabolic teaching of Christ is set forth here. This first parable was spoken to the multitudes (verses Mat 13:2-3 ). Its explanation was given to the disciples only (verses Mat 13:10-18 ). "The word of the Kingdom" is the seed (verse Mat 13:19 ). The result is dependent on the one who hears, and on how he hears. The second parable was spoken to the multitudes (verse Mat 13:34 ). Its explanation was given to the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:1-53

The Eight Parables of The Kingly Rule of Heaven (13:1-53). Having made clear that the Kingly Rule of Heaven is advancing forcefully (Matthew 11:12) and that through Jesus’ activities as the Servant of YHWH, operating in the power of the Spirit of God (Matthew 12:18-19), the Kingly Rule of God has come upon Israel (Matthew 12:28), Jesus now amplifies on it in a series of eight parables. The first four are spoken to the crowds, although the explanations are provided only to the disciples, the... read more

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 13:47-48

“Again, the kingly rule of heaven is like to a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind, which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast away.” The dragnet would be flung from a boat and be dragged along by the boat, or by two boats working together, being designed to form a cone so that it could then enclose any fish caught within it. It would gather many types of fish without discrimination.... 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

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

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