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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 13:47

the kingdom of heaven The parable of the Net ( (Greek - δαιμονίζομαι -net) presents another view from that of the wheat and tares of the mysteries of the kingdom as the sphere of profession, but with this difference: there Satan was the active agent; here the admixture is more the result of the tendency of a movement to gather to itself that which is not really of it). The kingdom of heaven is like a net which, cast into the sea of humanity, gathers of every kind, good and bad, and these remain... 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

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 13:1-58

Matthew 13:2 . He went into a ship. A small vessel or boat, probably belonging to one of the disciples, several of whom were fishermen. Matthew 13:3 . He spake many things to them in parables. On the mount our Saviour unfolded the grace of his kingdom, and rescued the purity and perfection of the law from the glosses of rabbinical traditions. Here, making a pulpit of the ship, he varied his method, and spake in parables after the manner frequently resorted to in the east. This mode of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 13:47-50

Matthew 13:47-50The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea. The drawnet1. We of this generation, a miscellaneous multitude of old and young, good and evil, move about at liberty in the wide expanse of life, as fishes move about in the deep broad sea; but certain mysterious, invisible lines, have been let down into the water, and are silently, slowly creeping near, and winding round us.2. Good and bad alike are drawn in company towards the shore, but the good and bad are... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 13:47

47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Ver. 47. Again the kingdom, &c. ] Christ is an incessant teacher: learn then, for shame, lest he turn us off for non-proficients. Let one sermon peg in another; and every second potion set the first to work. Is like unto a net, &c. ] An elegant comparison, wherein the fishers are the ministers, the sea the world, the net the word, the ship the church the fishes the hearers.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 13:47

a net: Matthew 4:19, Mark 1:17, Luke 5:10 and gathered: Matthew 13:26-Amos :, Matthew 22:9, Matthew 22:10, Matthew 25:1-Numbers :, Luke 14:21-Isaiah :, John 15:2, John 15:6, Acts 5:1-2 Samuel :, Acts 8:18-Song of Solomon :, Acts 20:30, 1 Corinthians 5:1-Joshua :, 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 Kings :, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 2 Corinthians 11:13-Ezra :, 2 Corinthians 11:26, 2 Corinthians 12:20, 2 Corinthians 12:21, Galatians 2:4, 2 Timothy 3:2-Deuteronomy :, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4, Titus 1:9-1 Kings... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:1-52

§ 49. THE SEVEN PARABLES, Matthew 13:1-52 . As Matthew has in chapters eight and nine exhibited our Lord as a performer of mighty works, namely, ten miracles, so now he here presents him as a parabolist. SEVEN PARABLES FOUR at the sea side, and THREE indoors are grouped together. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 13:47

47. Net The drag net, which sweeps the bottom of the fish pool. It is extended far into the sea, corked at the upper edge and loaded at the bottom, so as to intercept the fishes at the entire depth. The ends are then brought together so as to encompass them, and the whole are drawn in. Every kind Men of every rank, class, nation, and colour obtain places in the comprehension of the Gospel. read more

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