Category: Matthew 13
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A Prophet is Without Honour
(Matthew 13:53-58) There are three valuable lessons in this last section of Matthew 13, culminating with the teaching that a prophet is without honour in his own country and house. In this part we see him finish his parable teachings and returning to his own home country. Firstly though we see an insight into Jesus…
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Treasures New and Old
(Matthew 13:51-52) This section concludes the parable teachings that Jesus gave to his disciples at this time. He also provides a valuable lesson here on the methods by which they were to pass on this information. He describes here how they are trained and were to train others. To understand some of this it was…
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly
(Matthew 13:47-50) This parable of the kingdom is about the end of the time when Jesus comes to judge the world. We saw earlier that he will allow the weeds to grow with the wheat and they will be separated at the end of the days. This parable is saying much the same. The net…
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Parable of the Merchant Seeking Pearls
(Matthew 13:45-46) This parable is similar to the previous one where a man finds a great treasure in a field and covers it until he can buy the field. However a few nuances make this parable slightly different. In that previous parable (verse 44) the man discovers a treasure hidden in the filed. He didn’t…
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Hidden Treasure Parable
(Matthew 13:44) What would you do if you found a hidden treasure in a field? Let’s say you found gold nuggets or diamonds. Would you go and tell everyone about it? Would you tell people where you found it? Not likely. The hidden treasure parable is saying the same thing. The hidden treasure parable tells…
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Jesus and the Parables
(Matthew 13:34-43) Do you understand Jesus and the parables? Do you know why Jesus spoke to the people in parables? In this section we see the reason why he did so and also how we can learn to understand the parables of Jesus. The section begins with Jesus leaving the people and going into a…
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The Kingdom of God is Within You – Parable of the Leaven
(Matthew 13:33) This short parable of the leaven is talking about the kingdom of God within you. It is similar to the previous parable of mustard seed, but there are some marked differences. There are many commentators who have placed a negative connotation on this parable of the leaven because Jesus uses the analogy of…
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The Parable of Mustard Seed
(Matthew 13:31-32) Jesus gave a number of parables concerning the kingdom of God and the parable of mustard seed seen in this section is particularly interesting. The parable of mustard seed has been interpreted many different ways. I believe there is both a meaning for the community of God’s people and for the individual in…
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Weeds Among the Wheat, Wheat and the Tares
(Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43) Jesus provides another parable of what the kingdom of God is like in the parable of the weeds among the wheat, or as the KJV states, the tares among the wheat. While we think of weeds in many ways and varieties, the original Greek word translated as weeds among the wheat or…
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Why Jesus Spoke in Parables
(Matthew 13:10-17) When Jesus taught the people he used parables, analogies, stories and figures of speech to convey the messages of the Kingdom of God. Why Jesus spoke in parables was so that the truth of the kingdom could be spoken and at the same time kept hidden from those who chose not to find…
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The Parable of the Sower
(Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23) The parable of the sower gives us tremendous insight into how people will react to hearing the words of God. It shows us what they will do upon hearing it and helps us understand why it is that some people do not, cannot or will not accept Jesus. In the first part…
