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Verse Matthew 13:16. _BUT BLESSED_ ARE _YOUR EYES_] Ye improve the
light which God has given you; and you receive an increase of heavenly
wisdom by every miracle and by every sermon....
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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 “
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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...
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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...
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,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...
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BLESSED. happy, as in Matthew 5:3, &c.
YOUR EYES... YOUR EARS. ye. "Eyes" and "ears" being put by Figure of
speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the persons themselves....
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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...
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_blessed are your eyes_ The disciples have discernment to understand
the explanation which would be thrown away on the uninstructed
multitude....
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ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΔῈ ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΙ ΟἹ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟΊ. The
disciples have discernment to understand the explanation which would
be thrown away on the unistructed multitude....
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THE REASON WHY JESUS TEACHES IN PARABLES
Mark 4:10-12; Luke 8:10...
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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...
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_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...
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ΎΜΏΝ _gen. pl._ ваши — эмфатическое,
противопоставлено "их" (ΑΎΤΟΊΣ),
описано в ст. 14 (McNeile)....
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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;...
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But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.
BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES, FOR THEY SEE; AND YOUR EARS, FOR THEY
HEAR: - q.d., 'Happy ye, whose eyes and ears, voluntarily an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES. — The words are spoken to the small company
of disciples in the boat. They were not as the multitude. They might
see but dimly, and be slow of heart to understand, but, at least...
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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...
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In Mk. (Mark 4:13) Jesus reproaches the disciples for their ignorance;
here He congratulates them on their faculty of seeing and hearing
(spiritually). ὑμῶν : in emphatic position, suggesting contrast...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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(3) But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.
(3) The condition of the Church under and since Christ, is better than
it was in the time of the fathers under the law....
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But blessed are your eyes. As the eyes of such as see and will not
believe are miserable, so, he says, blessed are your eyes; you see my
miracles, you hear my heavenly doctrines, &c. (St. Thomas Aquin...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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_BLESSED EYES AND BLESSED EARS_
‘Blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.’
Matthew 13:16
The senses of sight and hearing are avenues of knowledge and of
pleasure. The capa...
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Matthew 13:16._But blessed are your eyes. _Luke appears to represent
this statement as having been spoken at another time; but this is
easily explained, for in that passage he throws together a variet...
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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...
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BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES, FOR THEY SEE,.... Which is to be understood
both of corporal and intellectual sight: it was their happiness to see
Christ in the flesh, and converse with him in person, be e...
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But blessed _are_ your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.
Ver. 16. _But blessed are your eyes, &c._] Demaratus of Corinth was
wont to say, that those Grecians lost a great part of the...
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_But blessed are your eyes_, &c. For you both see and hear, and
understand. You have not only greater opportunities of instruction
than others, but you both know how to prize, and are concerned to
imp...
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THEY SEE-THEY HEAR; with good effect. They loved the truth and desired
to know it, and to them a knowledge of it was communicated....
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The blessedness of Christ's followers:...
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BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES, FOR THEY SEE; AND YOUR EARS, FOR THEY HEAR....
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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...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON MT "13:17"....
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Matthew 13:16 But G1161 blessed G3107 your G5216 eyes G3788 for G3754
see G991 (G5719) and G2532 your...
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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...
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“But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they
hear.”
There are, however, those who do see and hear, and they do so because
they are ‘God-blessed' ones, that is, because their ‘eyes...
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Matthew 13:16. BUT BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES. ‘Your' is emphatic;
‘your eyes, blessed are they,' etc....
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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....
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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
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BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES
(υμων δε μακαριο ο οφθαλμο). A beatitude for the
disciples in contrast with the Pharisees. Note position of "Happy"
here also as in the Beatitudes in Matthew 13:5....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HOW FORTUNATE YOU ARE! Compare Matthew 16:17. They allowed God to
teach them the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven....
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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....
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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
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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,...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 4:6; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:17; Ephesians 1:18; Jo
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But blessed are your eyes — For you both see and understand. You
know how to prize the light which is given you. Luke 10:23....
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Here our Saviour pronounces such of his disciples and followers
blessed, who received the truths of the gospel so far as they were
already taught them: he assures them that they shall receive farther...