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Matthew 13:13
Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they, seeing, see not, and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.
Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they, seeing, see not, and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.
MATTHEW 13:13 o[ti ble,pontej ouv ble,pousin kai. avkou,ontej ouvk avkou,ousin ouvde. suni,ousin {B} Several representatives of the Western and of other types of text, influenced by the parallel pass...
Verse Matthew 13:13. _THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES_] On this account, viz. to lead them into a proper knowledge of God. I speak to them in parables, _natural_ representations of _spiritual_...
Christ, in these verses, gives a “reason” why he used this manner of instruction. See also Mark 4:10; Luke 8:9. Matthew 13:11 THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM - The word “
II. THE REJECTED KINGDOM AND THE REJECTED KING. CHAPTER S 13-28. 1. The King at the Seaside. The Mysteries of the Kingdom. CHAPTER 13 1. The King at the Seaside. (Matthew 13:1 .) 2. The Parable of...
PARABLE OF THE SOWER (Mark 4:1 *, Luke 8:4). MATTHEW 13:10. THE USE OF PARABLES (Mark 4:10 *,...
,34,35 The disciples came and said to him: "Why do you speak to them in parables?" "To you, he answered them, "it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom, which only a disciple can understan...
MANY THINGS IN PARABLES (Matthew 13:1-58) Matthew 13:1-58 is a very important chapter in the pattern of the gospel. (i) It shows a definite turning-point in the ministry of Jesus. At the beginning of...
THEREFORE. On this account. Greek. _dia touto._ See App-104.Matthew 13:2. SEEING SEE... HEARING... HEAR. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
The Parable of the Tares. Confined to St Matthew 25. _while men slept_ i. e. during the night. The expression is not introduced into the Lord's explanation of the parable. _sowed tares_ Travellers m...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ … ὍΤΙ. Jesus teaches in parables, _because_, as it is, the people do not understand, &c., i.e. (1) either He teaches them in the simplest and most attractive form so as by degrees to lead t...
THE REASON WHY JESUS TEACHES IN PARABLES Mark 4:10-12; Luke 8:10...
Ver 10. And the disciples came, and said unto him, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" 11. He answered and said unto them, "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of...
_THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER MATTHEW 13:1-23:_ Jesus taught from a boat as a great multitude stood on the shore. In Jesus' day sowing was absolutely necessary for survival. Sowing is necessary but it als...
ΌΤΙ (G3754) потому что. ΒΛΈΠΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть, ΆΚΟΎΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΑΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. Part, относится к_евр. inf. abs._ (который усиливает основной гл....
DISCOURSE: 1360 THE USE AND INTENT OF PARABLES Matthew 13:13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them i...
AND THE DISCIPLES CAME, &C.— See the note on Mark 4:10. The answer which our Lord here returns to his disciples is remarkable: "You, my disciples, says he, who are of a humble, docile, temper, and are...
III. JESUS-' METHODOLOGY BEHIND PARABOLIC INSTRUCTION A. THE PURPOSE FOR PARABLES TEXT: 13:10-17 (Parallels: Mark 4:10-12; Mark 4:21-25; Luke 8:9-10;...
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES - which our Lord, be it observed, d...
42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from the further coast line. 43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26 43 Actual i...
A DAY OF PARABLES 1-3a. Teaching by parables begun (Mark 4:1; Luke 8:4). This chapter introduces a new type of teaching, that by parables. St. Matthew gives us a group of seven, the first four of whic...
THE REASON FOR SPEAKING IN PARABLES (Mark 4:10; Luke 8:9). Because Christ's prejudiced hearers (see prefatory remarks) will not receive plain teaching, such as the Sermon on the Mount, they shall be p...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 STORIES ABOUT WHERE GOD RULES 13:1-52 Matthew wrote down a lot of the things that Jesus taught. This chapter is the third section...
BECAUSE THEY SEEING SEE NOT. — As the words stand in St. Matthew, they might mean that our Lord adopted the method of parables as a condescension to their infirmities, feeding them, as babes in knowle...
CHAPTER 11 The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1 "THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side." We can well imagine that, after such a series of discouragements and mortifi...
διὰ τοῦτο ὅτι. Mark and Luke have ἵνα, the former assigning a reason, the latter ascribing a purpose. In Matt. Jesus says: I speak in parables because seeing they do not see, etc.; which ought natural...
_The disciples ask an explanation_. There is some difficulty in forming a clear idea of this interlude. Who asked? The Twelve only, or they and others with them, as Mark states (Matthew 4:10)? And whe...
TEACHING FOR THE TEACHABLE Matthew 13:10-23 Jesus defended His use of parables. He said that He carefully avoided stating the truths of the Kingdom too plainly, so as not to increase the condemnation...
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 exp...
Because seeing they see not, &c. i.e. they see not as they might, and ought to do, by shutting their eyes against the lights given them. --- Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing th...
CHAPTER 26 THE SOWER Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-25; & Luke 8:4-18. Mark: “And again He began to teach by the sea; and a great multitude were gathered unto Him, so that, entering into a ship, He sat in...
"And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; (4) And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: (5) Some fe...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
13._For this reason I speak by parables. _He says that he speaks to the multitude in an obscure manner, because they are not partakers of the true light. And yet, while he declares that a veil is spre...
The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that w...
THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES,.... Because it was the will and pleasure of his Father to give the knowledge of divine mysteries to some, and not to others; and because even the outward good th...
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Ver. 13. _Therefore speak I to them in parables_] Because their wilful blind...
_Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they seeing, see not_ In pursuance of this general rule, I do not give more knowledge to this people, because they use not that which they have already:...
SEEING, SEE NOT; have faculties and opportunities, but do not rightly use them; of course do not understand the truths which they do not desire to know. The ignorance, dulness, and prejudices which co...
This chapter begins a new division of the book. Israel is looked at as set aside because of unbelief: the Lord went out of the house (typically Israel's house), and set by the seaside. The sea is typi...
1-23 Jesus entered into a boat that he might be the less pressed, and be the better heard by the people. By this he teaches us in the outward circumstances of worship not to covet that which is state...
Neither Mark nor Luke hath this, but it directly followeth from what they have, which also followeth here; only here it is plainly asserted concerning these hearers, and given as a reason why our Lord...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I " "Wherefore," says the Lord, "I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, and do not understand; "[4] Hippolytus Refu...
Matthew 13:13 Therefore G1223 G5124 speak G2980 (G5719) them G846 in G1722 parables G3850 because G3754 seeing...
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...
JESUS EXPLAINS WHY HE SPEAKS IN PARABLES (13:10-13A). The disciples who had had the secrets of the Kingly Rule of Heaven revealed to them in the Sermon on the Mount and subsequently, could not underst...
“Therefore do I speak to them in parables.” And it is because these truths are given to those whom He will (Matthew 11:27) that He speaks in parables. But it should be noted that it is with discrimina...
Matthew 13:13. THEREFORE. According to the principle just mentioned. BECAUSE SEEING THEY SEE NOT, etc. Here the reason is based on the character of the persons concerned; Mark and Luke emphasize the...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Evangelist has just represented our Lord in opposition to the Pharisees. (A few events probably intervened; see Luke 11-13.) Thus His claims as the Messiah came out more fully....
The occasion (Matthew 13:1); the scene (Matthew 13:2); the first parable (Matthew 13:3-9); the question of the disciples (Matthew 13:10); the twofol
BECAUSE SEEING (οτ βλεποντες). In the parallel passages in Mark 4:12 and Luke 8:10 we find ινα with the subjunctive. This does not necessarily mean that in Mark and Luke ινα=οτ with the causal sense...
Matthew 13:3 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,...
Matthew 13:10 The Parables of Christ. I. "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given," etc, Here a universal law is announced as the explanation of the gift to the disciples of understanding mysteries, an...
Matthew 13:13 Christ here touches upon a common fact of our human nature spiritual insensibility; that state in which spiritual things pass before a man, and instead of being beautiful and blessed rea...
Matthew 13:10. _And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in, parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom o...
Matthew 13:1. _The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat, and the whole multitude st...
Matthew 13:1. _The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude st...
Matthew 13:3. _And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;_ He had much instruction to give, and he chose to convey it in parables. What wonderful pictu...
CONTENTS: Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The sower, tares and wheat, grain of mustard seed, leaven, hid treasure, pearl, drag net. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The pr...
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 th...
THE REASON THAT I USE PARABLES. This is said about those who are satisfied to be spiritually ignorant (such as those in Matthew 12:38). No one will find Truth who does not actively search for it....
_Because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not._ INSENSIBILITY TO THE TRUTH Christ here touches upon a common fact of our human nature-spiritual insensibility-that state in which spiritual t...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:12 SEEING THEY DO NOT SEE. God uses the parables either to harden a person’s heart so that he or she will be unable to respond (v. Matth
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:1 The Messianic Kingdom Revealed in Parables. This is the third of Jesus’ five major teachings (see Introduction: Key Themes). It is a collection of parables....
JESUS EXPLAINS THE PARABLE OF THE FOUR SOILS MATTHEW 13:10-23; MARK 4:10-20; LUKE 8:9-15; MATTHEW 13:10 And the disciples came, and
1-57 CHAPTER 13 At that time, &c. Syriac, _by the sea shore_ : When Christ, after His manner, had preached in the house, which He had hired for His dwelling in Capernaum, as I have said on c. iv. 13,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ PRELIMINARY REMARKS _The parables of Jesus_.—The word “parable” has in the New Testament, in its application to the discourses of Jesus, a considerably wider meaning than the one in...
EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter (Matthew 13:1). (1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as it would appear, at...
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 y...
2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Deuteronomy 29:3; Deuteronomy 29:4;...
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing, they see not — In pursuance of this general rule, I do not give more knowledge to this people, be. cause they use not that which they have alread...
These words of our blessed Saviour, as. conceive, have. peculiar reference and relation to the Pharisees, who attended upon Christ's ministry, not with an honest simplicity of mind, to be instructed b...