Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Matthew 13:51
Matthew 13:51. Have ye understood? A test of their progress in the art of interpretation. They answered rightly, but the next verse suggests that they did not yet fully understand.
Matthew 13:51. Have ye understood? A test of their progress in the art of interpretation. They answered rightly, but the next verse suggests that they did not yet fully understand.
Verse 51. _HAVE YE UNDERSTOOD ALL THESE THINGS?_] Divine truths must not be lightly passed over. - Our Lord's question here shows them to be matters of the utmost weight and importance; and that they...
Jesus kindly asked them whether they had understood these things. If not, he was still willing to teach them. He enjoined on them their duty to make a proper use of this knowledge by speaking another...
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...
FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM. The treasure and the pearl (Matthew 13:44) are one, and have one point everything must be sacrificed for the highest good, the Kingdom. This urgent, intense wholeheart...
Jesus said, "Have you understood an these things?" They said to him: "Yes." He said to them: "That is why every scribe, who has been instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a householder who brin...
JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM. All the texts omit this clause. LORD. All the texts omit "Lord" here....
The Scribes of the Kingdom of Heaven 52. _instructed unto the kingdom of heaven_ The new law requires a new order of Scribes who shall be instructed unto the kingdom of heaven instructed in its myste...
λέγει αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς. Omitted in the oldest uncials א B D, appears in C and with the later uncials. The harshness of the construction without these words goes to prove a later insertion. 51. ΣΥΝΉΚΑΤΕ...
51, 52. THE SCRIBES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN...
VER 51. JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, "HAVE YE UNDERSTOOD ALL THESE THINGS?" THEY SAY UNTO HIM, "YEA, LORD." 52. THEN SAID HE UNTO THEM, "THEREFORE EVERY SCRIBE WHICH IS INSTRUCTED UNTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN...
_THE PARABLE OF THE DRAGNET MATTHEW 13:47-58:_ The dragnet was a common way of fishing in Jesus' day and is still used today. The dragnet took in all kinds of fish. Just so, the gospel net brings all...
ΣΥΝΉΚΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΊΗΜΙ (G4920), _см._ Matthew 13:13. ΛΈΓΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004), hist, _praes._...
HAVE YE UNDERSTOOD, &C.— When Jesus had finished his parables, he asked his disciples if they understood them; and upon their answering in the affirmative, he told them, that every teacher of the Jewi...
C. THE APPRECIATION FOR AND USE OF ALL TRUTH TEXT: 13:51-53 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea. 52 And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disc...
Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM - that is, to the Twelve. He had spoken the first four in the hearing of the mixed m...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
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...
HAVE YE UNDERSTOOD ALL THESE THINGS? — The verb is the same as that used in the parable of the Sower. An intellectual apprehension of the truth, which is also spiritual, is the condition of the growth...
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...
_Three other parables: the Treasure, the Pearl, the Net_....
_Conclusion of the parabolic collection_....
HOW UNBELIEF HINDERS Matthew 13:51-58 God's truth is always new and always old. It is as fresh as the morning breeze for each coming generation. But however stated, the fundamental facts are invaria...
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...
(9) Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. (9) They ought to be diligent, who have to be wise not only for themselves, but who have to dispense the...
CHAPTER 27 THE LEAVEN Matthew 13:33. _“He spake another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all were leav...
"Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. (52) Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like un...
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...
51._Have you understood all these things? _We must keep in recollection what we have formerly seen, that all the parables of Christ were explained in private. And now the Lord, after having taught the...
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...
JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM,.... This is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in some Greek exemplars; though it is necessary to the connection and sense...
Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. Ver. 51. _Have ye understood all these things?_] See here the ancient use of catechising in the Christian Chu...
_Jesus saith, Have ye understood all these things?_ As well those parables of which I have given you no particular explication, as those that I have explained? Thus a conscientious teacher will sedulo...
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...
44-52 Here are four parables. 1. That of the treasure hid in the field. Many slight the gospel, because they look only upon the surface of the field. But all who search the Scriptures, so as in them...
A conscientious teacher will have a respect to the profit of his hearers. Christ here setteth us an example, asking his disciples if they had UNDERSTOOD ALL THESE THINGS; as well those parables of whi...
Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John And He added, Therefore is every scribe instructed in the kingdom of God like unto a man that is a father of a family, bringing forth from...
Matthew 13:51 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) them G846 understood G4920 (G5656) all G3956 these G5023 things...
THE FINAL CHALLENGE (13:51-53). This final challenge by Jesus is often overlooked. Like the initial parable it is not directly ‘likened to the Kingly Rule of Heaven'. Nevertheless it is very pertinen...
“Have you understood all these things?” They say to him, “Yes.” Jesus' first concern is that His disciples have understood what He has been talking about. And when their reply is ‘yes' He points out...
JESUS SPEAKS TO HIS DISCIPLES IN PARABLES SO THAT THEIR EYES MAY BE OPENED (13:34-52). This next part-section is also in the form of a chiasmus. ANALYSIS. a Jesus speaks in parables not only for 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 13:51 I. The comparison is between the householder and the disciples. If they understood these few and seemingly simple analogies which He had unfolded to them, they were instructed unto the k...
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...
EVERY TEACHER OF THE LAW. A teacher of the Law would study Jesus in the context of the Old Testament. He would bring out old truths which come true in Jesus and his Kingdom. See Matthew 13:35....
_Have ye understood all these things?_ A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING I fear there are hundreds of religionists in this country who never think of understanding that which they attend to under the name of re...
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....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:51 BRINGS OUT OF HIS TREASURE WHAT IS NEW AND WHAT IS OLD. This refers to those who understand both the “new” revelation from Jesus and how it fulfills the “old” promises in...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:47. NET.—The reference is to the large drag-net or _seine_, [σαγήνη—hence _sagena_ (Vulgate) and English _sean_ or _seine_]. One end of the _seine_ is held on the shore, t...
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...
1 John 5:20; Acts 8:30; Acts 8:31; Luke 9:44; Luke 9:45;...
Observe here, 1. The title which our Saviour puts upon gospel-ministers; they are household stewards. 2. He points out the office of those stewards; and that is, to provide for the household both wit...