Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 13:26
When the blade was sprung up, then appeared the darnel — It was not discerned before: it seldom appears, as soon as the good seed is sown: all at first appears to be peace, and love, and joy.
When the blade was sprung up, then appeared the darnel — It was not discerned before: it seldom appears, as soon as the good seed is sown: all at first appears to be peace, and love, and joy.
Verse Matthew 13:26. _WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP - THEN APPEARED THE TARES_ _ALSO._] Satan has a shoot of iniquity for every shoot of grace; and, when God revives his work, Satan revives his also. N...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKENED ... - That is, the “gospel resembles.” The kingdom of heaven (see the notes at Matthew 3:2) means here the effect of the gospel by its being preached. The meaning of t...
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...
MATTHEW 13:24; MATTHEW 13:36. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES. Mt. only. The parable is a substitute for rather than an adaptation of Mark 4:26 *. We need not deny its genuineness on the plea that the standpo...
II. WHENCE COME THE TARES ? 26. WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP. At first, until there was growth, the difference would be unknown, but as both grew the difference would be more and more manifest. There...
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...
,36-43 Jesus put forward another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven, he said to them, "is like what happened when a man sowed good seed in his field. When men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel in th...
APPEARED. Greek. _phaino._ App-106....
THE PARABLE OF THE TARES Confined to St Matthew....
ἘΦΆΝΗ, ‘was manifest,’ when the good corn made fruit: before that they were indistinguishable....
Ver 24. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among t...
_THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES MATTHEW 13:24-43_ : A man sowed good seed in his field. An enemy sowed tares among the wheat. The servants were not allowed to root up the tares least, by accident...
ΈΒΛΆΣΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΛΑΣΤΆΝΩ (G1380) пускать побеги, прорастать, ΧΌΡΤΟΣ (G5528) трава, ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 13:23. ΈΦΆΝΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΦΑΊΝΩ (G5316), _pass._ появ...
B. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD: THE TRIALS OF TRUTH 1. THE PARABLE OF THE WEEDS TEXT: 13:24-30, 36-43 24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto...
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO - the growth in bot...
14 Compare Isa_6:9-10, Septuagint. See Joh_12:37-40; Act_28:25-27; Rom_11:7-10; 2Co_3:14-16. 16-17 Compare Luk_10:23-24. See Mat_16:17. 18-23 Compare Mar_4:14-20; Luk_8:11-15. 19 Lack of understandi...
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...
PARABLE OF THE TARES (peculiar to St. Matthew). One of the greatest, most characteristic, and most fruitful of the parables. In it Christ looked from the present into the distant future. He foresaw th...
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...
HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES. — The act described was then — and still is — a common form of Eastern malice or revenge. It easily escaped detection. It inflicted both loss and trouble. The “enemy” h...
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...
τότε ἐφάνη : not distinguishable in the blade, not till it reached the ear, then easily so by the form, the ear branching out with grains on each twig (Koetsveld, _De Gelijk._, p. 25)....
_The Tares_. This parable has some elements in common with that in Mark 4:26-29, whence the notion of many critics that one of the two has been formed from the other. As to which is the original, opin...
OTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM Matthew 13:24-33 The tare was a species of rye grass, which in its earlier stages, closely resembled wheat. In this world, and in the Church, professors are closely ming...
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...
STORM ON THE GALILEAN SEA Matthew 13:18-27; Mark 4:35-41; & Luke 8:22-25; Luke 9:57-62. Mark: they will begin to say
"Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: (25) But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the whea...
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...
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...
BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP,.... That is, the blade of the wheat; which designs the taking up, a profession of religion on principles of grace, called a profession of faith; and when right, it sp...
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. Ver. 26. _Then appeared the tares also_] Hypocrites are sure sooner or later to be detected. All will out at l...
_Another parable put he forth unto them_ In which he further explains the case of unfruitful hearers, and shows that persons of various characters would profess to receive the gospel, and be accounted...
BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT; when the fruit began to grow. By their principles and conduct, the difference between those who embrace the gospel and those who embrace opposite errors, is seen....
The result of the scheme:...
BUT WHEN THE BLADE WAS SPRUNG UP, AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO....
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...
24-30, 36-43 This parable represents the present and future state of the gospel church; Christ's care of it, the devil's enmity against it, the mixture there is in it of good and bad in this world, a...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 13:33"....
Matthew 13:26 But G1161 when G3753 grain G5528 sprouted G985 (G5656) and G2532 produced G4160 (G5656) crop...
‘But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares (darnel) also. And the servants of the householder came and said to him, “Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? F...
THREE FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:24-33). The parable of the Sower having been explained, We now have three further parables introduced, the parable of the tares (or bearded darn...
THE PARABLE OF THE TARES/BEARDED DARNEL (13:24-30). In this parable the sower sows good seed in a field, but by night his enemy sows bad seed. However, when asked if the bad seed should be removed th...
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...
Matthew 13:26. THEN APPEARED THE TARES ALSO. After a time, and at a time of promise in the wheat the evil result of the malicious sowing is apparent....
THE THREE OTHER PARABLES SPOKEN in public (Matthew 13:24-33), with the interpretation of the parable of the tares in private (Matthew 13:36-43). The Evangelist inserts, as is his habit, a prophecy ful...
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....
THEN APPEARED ALSO (τοτε εφανη κα). The darnel became plain (εφανη, second aorist passive, effective aorist of φαινω to show) by harvest....
Matthew 13:25 In the text, three things are hinted at by Christ with respect to the presence of evil among the good. I. Here, first, is the secrecy, the undiscernibleness of its beginnings "while men...
Matthew 13:24 I. It was "while men slept" that the enemy sowed his tares among the wheat. The phrase is equivalent to "at night," and must not be further urged. This enemy seized his opportunity when...
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 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ He knew that it was good. It had been tested: it was u...
Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
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...
THEN THE WEEDS SHOWED UP. No heads of grain would form on the weeds, so they identify themselves....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:25 These WEEDS are probably darnel, a weedy rye grass with poisonous black seeds. Darnel resembles wheat in its early growth but is easily distinguished from it when full gr...
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....
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,...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 13:24_ The seeds of error.—The explanation of the last parable is, in part, the explanation of this. It teaches us, _e.g_. what is meant in this parable by...
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...
Mark 4:26...