The field is the world; for by the appointment of Christ the good seed of the gospel is to be sown among all nations, so that the visible church shall be coextensive with the world.
Children of the kingdom; children of God not in name alone, but in reality.
Children of the wicked one; of Satan, though they be found among Christ's visible followers.
DECLARE UNTO US - That is, explain the meaning of the parable. This was done in so plain a manner as to render comment unnecessary. The Son of man, the Lord Jesus, sows the good seed - that is, preach...
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...
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...
ARE. these are: i.e. represent. Figure of speech _Metaphor._ App-6. CHILDREN. sons. App-108....
Explanation of the Parable of the Tares, in St Matthew only 39. _the end of the world_ Literally, THE COMPLETION OF THIS ÆON, "the point where one æon ends and another begins." The expression is found...
EXPLANATION OF THE PARABLE OF THE TARES, in St Matthew only...
Ver 36. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, "Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field." 37. He answered and said unto the...
_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...
ΠΟΝΗΡΟΎ (G4190) _gen. sing._ зло. "Сыны злого" = "те, у кого злой характер" (McNeile)....
THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM— This is a Hebraism, signifying the _heirs of the kingdom,_ ch. Matthew 8:12 where the unbelieving Jews are named the _children of the kingdom,_ in opposition to the Gentil...
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. See the comments at 13:24-30....
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)...
THE TARES INTERPRETED. See on Matthew 13:24. The field is called the world as well as the Kingdom of God or the Church, because the Church is charged with a mission to the whole human race, and is des...
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...
THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE. — It was, perhaps, natural that theologians, who saw in heresy the greatest of all evils, should identify the tares with heretics. So far as heresy rises...
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...
_Interpretation of the Tares_. Not in Apostolic Document; style that of evangelist; misses the point of the parable so Weiss (Matt.-Evang., p. 351). But if there was _any_ private talk between Jesus a...
ὁ κόσμος, the wide world; universalism. σπέρμα, not the word this time, but the children of the kingdom. ζιζάνια, the sons of the wicked one (τοῦ πονηροῦ, the devil)....
GENUINE AND COUNTERFEIT Matthew 13:34-43 Throughout the Synoptic Gospels-Matthew, Mark, and Luke-a consistent distinction is made between the outer ranks of the people, or disciples, and the inner ci...
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...
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...
"Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. (37) He answered and said unto them, He th...
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...
THE FIELD IS THE WORLD,.... That which is represented by "the field", in which the good seed is sown, is not only the land of Judea, where Christ preached in person, but the whole world, into which th...
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked _one_; Ver. 38. _The field is the world_] The Christian world, the Church, not the...
Mat. 13:38, Luke 13:21. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened." By three measures is meant the whole world: the...
_Then Jesus sent the multitude away_ The evening probably drawing on, for the people had now been long collected together: _and went_ From the vessel where he had been preaching; _into the house_ Prob...
THE FIELD IS THE WORLD. THE GOOD SEED ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM; BUT THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE....
Jesus explains the parable of the tares:...
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...
31-35 The scope of the parable of the seed sown, is to show that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but its latter end would greatly increase; in this way the work of grace in the heart, th...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 13:39"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV that is, in this world (for "the field is the world"[353] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV those] of the devil, for whom eternal fire is prepared; and as, again,...
Matthew 13:38 G1161 field G68 is G2076 (G5748) world G2889 G1161 good G2570 seeds G4690 are...
“And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the Kingly Rule, and the tares (darnel) are the sons of the evil one.” The field represents the whole of mankind (not just the Jew...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND DARNEL (13:36-43). The parables that have now been given have gradually built up a picture of the advance of the Kingly Rule of Heaven. Firstly the seed...
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...
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 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...
Matthew 13:38. THE FIELD IS THE WORLD. ‘His field' (Matthew 13:24), hence some would limit this to the Church. But in that case the parable would not differ from the last of the series. The phrase can...
THE FIELD IS THE WORLD (ο δε αγρος εστιν ο κοσμος). The article with both "field" and "world" in Greek means that subject and predicate are coextensive and so interchangeable. It is extremely import...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _ KINGDOM (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 3:2). _...
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:_ Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
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...
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...
36-43. TELL US WHAT THE PARABLE OF THE WEEDS IN THE FIELD MEANS. This parable is in Matthew 13:24-30. (1) The Kingdom is compared to the _man_ who sows. (2) The _man_ is the Son of God Jesus himself....
_The field is the world._ THE MORAL DIGNITY OF THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE I. The grandeur of the object. Survey the field geographically. Estimate the miseries of the world. Consider these human bein...
_But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares._ THE TARES AND THE WHEAT This parable relates chiefly to the condition of the Church. I. The mixed condition of His Church in our world. II. T...
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,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:35. FULFILLED.—The quotation illustrates, much in the same way as those in Matthew 8:17; Matthew 12:17, St. Matthew’s peculiar way of dealing with the prophetic language of...
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 3:10; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:23;...
The good seed are the children of the kingdom — That is, the children of God, the righteous....