He. And He.
is given. hath been given: i.e. is permanently given.
to know. to get to know. Greek. ginosko. App-132.
the mysteries. the secrets; or the things hitherto kept secret.
of. belonging to. Genitive of Relation. App-17.
the kingdom of heaven. See App-114.
heaven. the heavens (plural) See notes on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10.
it is not given. it hath not been given.
Verse Matthew 13:11. _IT IS GIVEN UNTO YOU TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES_, c.] By _mysteries_, here, we may understand not only things concerning the scheme of salvation, which had not yet been revealed but...
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 “
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 *,...
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...
,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...
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...
_the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven_ Secrets known only to the initiated the inner teaching of the gospel. St Paul regards as "mysteries," the spread of the gospel to the Gentiles, Ephesians 3:3-4...
THE REASON WHY JESUS TEACHES IN PARABLES Mark 4:10-12; Luke 8:10...
ΤᾺ ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΑ ΤΗ͂Σ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝΩ͂Ν. Secrets known only to the initiated—the inner teaching of the gospel. St Paul regards as ‘mysteries,’ the spread of the gospel to the Gentiles, Ephesians 3:3...
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...
_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...
ΑΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать (_см._ Matthew 3:15). ΔΈΔΟΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. Богосл. _pass._ ΓΝΏΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G10...
AND THE DISCIPLES CAME, &C.— See the note on Mark 4:10. The answer which our Lord here returns to his disciples is remarkable: "You, my disciples, says he, who are of a humble, docile, temper, and are...
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;...
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, BECAUSE IT IS GIVEN UNTO YO...
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...
UNTO YOU] i.e. not only to the Apostles, but to all spiritually receptive persons—to 'those who are within,' as opposed to 'those who are without' (Mk). Cp. the rabbinical saying, 'God entrusts not Hi...
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...
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...
IT IS GIVEN. — Better, _it has been given,_ as by the special act of God. TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES. — The Greek word, like “parable,” has passed into modern languages, and has suffered some change of mea...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
(2) He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. (2) The gift of understanding and faith is given only to...
To you it is given. The mysteries of the kingdom of God are not disclosed to the Scribes and Pharisees, who were unwilling to believe in him, (though it was the duty and occupation of the Scribes to e...
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...
11._To you it is given to know the mysteries _(178) _of the kingdom of heaven _From this reply of Christ we learn, that the doctrine of salvation is proclaimed by God to men for various purposes; for...
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...
HE ANSWERED, AND SAID UNTO THEM,.... Christ was always ready to give an answer to his inquiring disciples, concerning his ministry, and his conduct in it; which shows great respect to them, and condes...
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Ver. 11. _Because it is given to you_] Plutarch thinks that l...
_The disciples_ Mark says, οι περι αυτον συν τοις δωδεκα, _those that were about him, with the twelve_, that is, not only the apostles, but such other well-disposed persons as generally attended on Ch...
YOU; his disciples, who loved him and desired to understand his teaching. THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; the deep truths respecting the dispensation of the gospel, which had not before been...
HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, BECAUSE IT IS GIVEN UNTO YOU TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT TO THEM IT IS NOT GIVEN....
The reason for speaking in parables:...
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 13:12"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But blessed are your eyes, which see the things that ye see; and your ears, which hear what ye do hear.[412] Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth " And he answered m...
Matthew 13:11 answered G611 (G5679) and G1161 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 Because G3754 given G1325 ...
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...
JESUS EXPLAINS WHY HE SPEAKS IN PARABLES (13:10-13A). The disciples who had had the secrets of the Kingly Rule of Heaven revealed to them in the Sermon on the Mount and subsequently, could not underst...
‘And he answered and said to them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingly rule of heaven, but to them it is not given.” Jesus replied that the reason that He treated the disciples dif...
Matthew 13:11. BECAUSE IT IS (‘hath been and is') GIVEN TO YOU. ‘To you' is emphatic. A _gift_ of God, is here said to be bestowed on one class of hearers (you), and not bestowed on another (them). T...
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
TO KNOW THE MYSTERIES (γνωνα τα μυστηρια). Second aorist active infinitive of γινωσκω. The word μυστηριον is from μυστης, one initiated, and that from μυεω (μυω), to close or shut (Latin, _mutus_)....
MYSTERIES A "mystery" in Scripture is a previously hidden truth, now divinely revealed; but in which a supernatural element still remains despite the revelation. The greater mysteries are: 1) The my...
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...
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 13:10. _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...
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...
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...
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...
HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU. Spiritual training is required to be able to understand spiritual truth (_see_ 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 2:11; 1 Corinthians 2:14)....
_Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven._ THE PREPARATION NECESSARY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERIES OF THE GOSPEL I. To explain what it is that we ought to have...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:10 SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. Jesus’ parables hide the truth from the “crowd” (v. Matthew 13:2
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 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
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...
1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 2:14;...
Mysteries [μ υ σ τ η ρ ι α]. From muw, to close or shut. In classical Greek, applied to certain religious celebrations to which persons were admitted by formal initiation, and the precise character of...
To you, who have, it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven — The deep things which flesh and blood cannot reveal, pertaining to the inward, present kingdom of heaven. But to them who...