Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 13:8
Good ground — Soft, not like that by the highway side; deep, not like the stony ground; purged, not full of thorns.
Good ground — Soft, not like that by the highway side; deep, not like the stony ground; purged, not full of thorns.
Verse Matthew 13:8. _GOOD GROUND_] Where the earth was deep, the field well ploughed, and the brambles and weeds all removed. See more on Matthew 13:18, c., and see on Luke 8:15. _SOME A HUNDRED-FOL...
IN PARABLES - The word “parable” is derived from a Greek word signifying “to compare together,” and denotes a similitude taken from a natural object to illustrate a spiritual or moral subject. It is a...
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 *,...
III. GOOD SEED IN GOOD SOIL. 8. BUT OTHER FELL IN GOOD GROUND. The goodness of this last soil consists in its qualities being precisely the reverse of the other three soils: from its softness and te...
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...
,18-23 On that day, when he had gone out from the house, Jesus sat on the seashore; and such great crowds gathered to hear him that he went into a boat, and sat there; and the whole crowd took their s...
INTO. upon. Greek. _epi._ App-104. GOOD GROUND. the ground, the good [ground]. Good, because _prepared._ BROUGHT FORTH. All the verbs are in past tenses....
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...
_some an hundredfold_, &c. The different kinds of fertility may be ascribed to different kinds of grain; barley yields more than wheat, and "white maize sown in the neighbourhood often yields several...
Ὃ ΜῈΝ ἙΚΑΤΌΝ, Κ.Τ.Λ. Thomson, _Land and Book_, p. 83, ascribes the different kinds of fertility to different kinds of grain; ‘barley yields more than wheat, and white maize sown in the neighbourhood,...
JESUS TEACHES IN PARABLES. THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER Mark 4:1-9; Luke 8:4-9...
Ver 1. The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the seaside. 2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on...
_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...
ΈΔΊΔΟΥ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) приносить урожай....
BUT OTHER FELL INTO GOOD GROUND— _But another part, falling on good ground, bare fruit; one grain_ yielding _an hundred, another sixty, another thirty._ Prussian editors. See Genesis 26:12. The fruitf...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN I. THE OCCASION TEXT: 13:1-9, 18-23 (Parallels: Mark 4:1-9; Mark 4:13-20; Luke 8:4-8; Luke 8:11-15) 1 On t
_AND WHEN HE SOWED, SOME SEEDS FELL BY THE WAY SIDE, AND THE FOWLS CAME AND DEVOURED THEM UP:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
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...
INTO GOOD GROUND. — Here also the Greek has the definite article, “_the_ good ground.” The different results imply that even here there were different degrees of fertility. The hundredfold return was,...
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...
καλὴν, genuinely good land free from all the faults of the other three: soft, deep, clean. ἐδίδου, yielded. In other texts (Matthew 3:8; Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:17) ποιεῖν is used. ἑκατόν, ἑξήκοντα, τ...
_The Parable of the Sower_ (Mark 4:1-9; Luke 8:4-8)....
_The Parable_....
SOWING IN DIFFERENT SOILS Matthew 13:1-9 The varying results of gospel preaching are due, not primarily to the sower or to the seed, but to the ground. Four classes of hearers are described in this p...
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...
Some a hundred-fold. This difference of fruits is the difference of merit here, and of the rewards hereafter, according to the diversity of states, &c. St. Augustine, in his work, ( de Virginitate, ch...
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...
_PREACHER AND PEOPLE_ ‘Other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.’ Matthew 13:8 Preacher and pe...
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 OTHERS FELL INTO GOOD GROUND,.... Not beaten and trodden by the feet of men, nor stony, nor thorny, but well broke up, manured, and tilled; which designs good, honest hearted hearers who become so...
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Ver. 8. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 13:5 _"_...
_When he sowed, some seeds fell by the way-side_ By the side of a beaten path which lay through the ground he was sowing. This wayside being neither broken up by the plough nor hedged in, the seed tha...
GOOD GROUND; rich soil, and well prepared. Notice the gradation in respect to these four kinds of soil. In the first, the seed perishes without even springing up; in the second, it springs up, but wit...
The parable story:...
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 famil...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 13:9"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI These chosen abodes, which are three, are indicated by the numbers in the Gospel-the thirty, the sixty, the hundred.[218]...
Matthew 13:8 But G1161 others G243 fell G4098 (G5627) on G1909 good G2570 ground G1093 and G2532 yielded...
“And others fell on the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” But some of the seed would fall on the ground which yielded to the plough, some parts better than...
THE PARABLE OF THE SOWING OF THE SEED (13:3-9). This parable compares those who hear the word, and in three ways fail to receive it successfully, with those who do receive the word, and produce fruit...
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...
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
YIELDED FRUIT (εδιδου καρπον). Change to imperfect tense of διδωμ, to give, for it was continuous fruit-bearing.SOME A HUNDREDFOLD (ο μεν εκατον). Variety, but fruit. This is the only kind that is...
Matthew 13:1 The Parable of the Sower. In the parable of the sower there is nothing at all novel. Our Saviour did not affect novelty in His illustrations of what He had to say to men about Divine tr...
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 13:3. _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...
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...
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...
BUT SOME SEEDS FELL IN GOOD SOIL. This last soil is the exact opposite of the other. It has all the good qualities needed to grow a good crop. SOME HAD ONE HUNDRED GRAINS. That is, each "one grain of...
_But other fell on good ground and brought forth fruit._ The fruit _thirty-fold _seems to represent the case of those who fear; _sixty-fold _the ease of those who hope; the _hundredfold _those who lo...
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 TELLS THE PARABLE OF THE FOUR SOILS MATTHEW 13:1-9; MARK 4:1-9; LUKE 8:4-8; MATTHEW 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by th
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...
Galatians 5:22; Galatians 5:23; Genesis 26:12; John 15:8; Luke 8:15;...
A hundred - fold. Mentioned as something extraordinary. Compare Genesis 26:12. Herodotus (i. 93) says of Babylonia, "In grain it is so fruitful as to yield commonly two - hundred - fold; and when the...
THE PARABLES OF MATTHEW THIRTEEN Matthew 13:1, _Matthew 13:18_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have decided to present to you one phase of the parable of the sower, the seed that fell by the wayside, 1. THE...