Matthew 13:1,2
THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME DAY WENT JESUS OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND SAT BY THE SEASIDE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GREAT MULTITUDES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO HIM, SO THAT HE WENT INTO A SHIP AND SAT, AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE STOOD ON THE SHORE. Though the shadow of unbelief and of spiritual hostility is evident even in this chapter, it nevertheless affords a welcome relief from the strained condition of Chr... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE MANY THINGS UNTO THEM IN PARABLES, SAYING: BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT FORTH TO SOW.... [ Continue Reading ]
The parable story:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE SOWED, SOME SEEDS FELL BY THE WAYSIDE, AND THE FOWLS CAME, AND DEVOURED THEM UP.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOME FELL UPON STONY PLACES, WHERE THEY HAD NOT MUCH EARTH; AND FORTHWITH THEY SPRUNG UP, BECAUSE THEY HAD NO DEEPNESS OF EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE SUN WAS UP, THEY WERE SCORCHED; AND BECAUSE THEY HAD NO ROOT, THEY WITHERED AWAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME FELL AMONG THORNS; AND THE THORNS SPRUNG UP AND CHOKED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT OTHER FELL INTO GOOD GROUND, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, SOME AN HUNDREDFOLD, SOME SIXTYFOLD, SOME THIRTYFOLD. Parables are stories of comparison, and as Jesus employed them, He made use of the familiar in nature and in human life and experience to teach and bring home the great facts of His kingdo... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus cries out in conclusion: WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM. HEAR. A hint that there is a hidden meaning in the story, and that every hearer should find this meaning and apply it properly. Where is there a similar experience in the spiritual life?... [ Continue Reading ]
The request for an explanation: AND THE DISCIPLES CAME AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY SPEAKEST THOU UNTO THEM IN PARABLES? The disciples who were present with Jesus, including probably even some of the twelve apostles, were still remarkably dense in spiritual matters. They had little understanding of the k... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, BECAUSE IT IS GIVEN UNTO YOU TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT TO THEM IT IS NOT GIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The reason for speaking in parables:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHOSOEVER HATH, TO HIM. SHALL BE GIVEN, AND HE SHALL HAVE MORE ABUNDANCE; BUT WHOSOEVER HATH NOT, FROM HIM SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY EVEN THAT HE HATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES; BECAUSE THEY, SEEING, SEE NOT, AND HEARING, THEY HEAR NOT, NEITHER DO THEY UNDERSTAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THEM IS FULFILLED THE PROPHECY OF ESAIAS, WHICH SAITH, BY HEARING YE SHALL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND SHALL NOT PERCEIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES. THEY HAVE CLOSED, LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM. Christ divides His hearer... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES, FOR THEY SEE; AND YOUR EARS, FOR THEY HEAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
The blessedness of Christ's followers:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT MANY PROPHETS AND RIGHTEOUS MEN HAVE DESIRED TO SEE THOSE THINGS WHICH YE SEE, AND HAVE NOT SEEN THEM; AND TO HEAR THOSE THINGS WHICH YE HEAR, AND HAVE NOT HEARD THEM. The full and true happiness is that of having eyes and ears opened by the benign mercy of Jesus. No... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR YE, THEREFORE, THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The interpretation of the parable:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN ANY ONE HEARETH THE WORD OF THE KINGDOM, AND UNDERSTANDETH IT NOT, THEN COMETH THE WICKED ONE, AND CATCHETH AWAY THAT WHICH WAS SOWN IN HIS HEART: THIS IS HE WHICH RECEIVED SEED BY THE WAYSIDE,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT RECEIVED THE SEED INTO STONY PLACES, THE SAME IS HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD, AND ANON WITH JOY RECEIVETH IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
YET HATH HE NOT ROOT IN HIMSELF, BUT DURETH FOR A WHILE; FOR WHEN TRIBULATION OR PERSECUTION ARISETH BECAUSE OF THE WORD, BY AND BY HE IS OFFENDED.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ALSO THAT RECEIVED SEED AMONG THE THORNS IS HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD, AND THE CARE OF THIS WORLD AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES CHOKE THE WORD, AND HE BECOMETH UNFRUITFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT RECEIVED SEED INTO THE GOOD GROUND IS HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD AND UNDERSTANDETH IT, WHICH ALSO BEARETH FRUIT, AND BRINGETH FORTH, SOME AN HUNDREDFOLD, SOME SIXTY, SOME THIRTY. He sets His disciples apart: Ye therefore hear, and, in hearing, learn the lesson. The seed that is sown in the... [ Continue Reading ]
ANOTHER PARABLE PUT HE FORTH UNTO THEM, SAYING: THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED UNTO A MAN WHICH SOWED GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PARABLE OF THE TARES... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT AND WENT HIS WAY. An important point: The parable is set forth, is presented, as spiritual food, for instruction of the soul. The kingdom of heaven, the Church of Christ, strictly speaking, includes only such as are united under His... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
The result of the scheme:... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THE SERVANTS OF THE HOUSEHOLDER CAME AND SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, DIDST NOT THOU SOW GOOD SEED IN THY FIELD? FROM WHENCE, THEN, HATH IT TARES?... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID UNTO THEM, AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS. THE SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, WILT THOU, THEN, THAT WE GO AND GATHER THEM UP?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SAID, NAY; LEST WHILE YE GATHER UP THE TARES, YE ROOT UP ALSO THE WHEAT WITH THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST; AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM; BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. The enemy's plan certainly proceeded from devilish ingenuity. For not until the field began to... [ Continue Reading ]
ANOTHER PARABLE PUT HE FORTH UNTO THEM, SAYING, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE TO A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK AND SOWED IN HIS FIELD;... [ Continue Reading ]
Parable of the mustard seed:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH INDEED IS THE LEAST OF ALL SEEDS; BUT WHEN IT IS GROWN, IT IS THE GREATEST AMONG HERBS, AND BECOMETH A TREE, SO THAT THE BIRDS OF THE AIR COME AND LODGE IN THE BRANCHES THEREOF. He set before them choice spiritual food for their instruction and edification. The kingdom of Christ in its growth... [ Continue Reading ]
Parable of the leaven: ANOTHER PARABLE SPAKE HE UNTO THEM: THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN WHICH A WOMAN TOOK AND HID IN THREE MEASURES OF MEAL, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED. A very small piece of leaven, or yeast, if set to flour or meal, under the proper conditions, will quickly impart i... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THESE THINGS SPAKE JESUS UNTO THE MULTITUDE IN PARABLES; AND WITHOUT A PARABLE SPAKE HE NOT UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
An explanation by the evangelist:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES, I WILL UTTER THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN KEPT SECRET FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. It was at this time that Jesus made use of this form of teaching for reasons which Matthew had indicated above, v. 1... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS SENT THE MULTITUDE AWAY AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE; AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, DECLARE UNTO US THE PARABLE OF THE TARES OF THE FIELD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus explains the parable of the tares:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT SOWETH THE GOOD SEED IS THE SON OF MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIELD IS THE WORLD. THE GOOD SEED ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM; BUT THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ENEMY THAT SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL. THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE WORLD; AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THEREFORE THE TARES ARE GATHERED AND BURNED IN THE FIRE, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, AND THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE: THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. The narrative reveals a respectful intimacy on the part of the disciples. When Jesus had returned home, they did not hesitate to ask for an explanation, in order that the meaning of t... [ Continue Reading ]