Matthew 13:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. ”

• Matthew 13:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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, p...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Matthew 13:24-30 ; Matthew 13:36-43 . The Wheat and the Tares. Mt. only. The parable is a substitute for rather than an adaptation of Mark 4:26-29 *. We need not deny its genuineness on the ple...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the end of the world . the end of the age, age-time, or dispensation. The expression occurs six times (here, verses: Matthew 13:40 ; Matthew 13:49 ; Matthew 13:3 ; Matthew 28:20 ; Hebrews 9:26...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39. The harvest is the end of the world. This is, no doubt, a very distressing consideration, that the Church is burdened with the reprobate to the very end of the world; but Christ enjoi...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

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• Matthew 13:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The end of the world— Of the age, literally, a Hebraism, frequently used in the New Testament. Comp. the next verse, and Hebrews 1:2 . What follows is an allusion to Joel 3:13 . See also Revel...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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.

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• Matthew 13:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The enemy that sowed them is the devil. — Here, as in the parable of the Sower, there is the most distinct recognition of a personal power of evil, the enemy of God thwarting His work. It will be n...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 11 The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1-58 "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 an...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 in...

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• Matthew 13:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 ex...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  "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 t...

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• Matthew 13:39 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? ‘The harvest is the end of the world.’ Matthew 13:39 The harvest is used here to denote the Judgment— I. The soul .—In this world God has set each of us, as the...

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• Matthew 13:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The enemy that sowed them is the devil ,.... He that is designed by the enemy, who sowed the tares in the field among the wheat, is no other than the devil; the enemy of Christ, of mankind in genera...

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• Matthew 13:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. Ver. 39. The enemy that sowed them, &c. ] As Esther said, "The adversary and enemy...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Pro...

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• Matthew 13:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 typ...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Parable of the Tares, the Mustard-Seed, the Leaven, c..       24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 37-39. The design that Christ had in this parable was to show them, that though he laid a good foundation of a church in the world, calling some home to himself; and making them partakers of his...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Serv...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 l...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Scofield Reference Notes

  devil Satan. Greek, "diabolos", means "accuser". See note, ( Matthew 16:23 ); ( Genesis 3:1 ); ( Revelation 20:10 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Revelation 20:10 ). angels ( See Scofield)...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Matthew 13:3-50 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 par...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 wa...

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• Matthew 13:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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....

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• Matthew 13:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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....

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• Matthew 13:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter ( Matthew 13:1-40 ). (1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as it woul...

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• Matthew 13:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jesus explains the parable of the tares:

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• Matthew 13:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; 2 Corinthians 11:3 ; 2 Corinthians 2:17 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11 ; Daniel 7:10 ; Ephesians 2:2 ; Ephesians 6:11 ; Ephesians 6...

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