Matthew 13:45
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman - The meaning is, that the proper seeking for salvation, or the proper conduct in reference to r...
Further Parables of the Kingdom. The treasure and the pearl ( Matthew 13:44-46 ) are one, and have one point everything must be sacrificed for the...
46. And bought it. By the word buy Christ does not mean, that men bring any price, with which they may purchase for themselves the heaven...
DISCOURSE: 1365 THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Matthew 13:45-46 . The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant-man seeking goodly pearls: who, when h...
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure— These three following parables are proposed not so much to the multitude, as to the apostles pa...
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Who, when he had found one pearl of great pric...
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....
The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price (peculiar to St. Matthew). These two parables were addressed to the disciples in the house on the...
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 imagi...
Securing Treasure; Rejecting the Bad Matthew 13:44-50 The parables of treasure and pearl are a pair. They describe the various ways we come to...
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 sp...
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth...
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Ver. 46. Who when he had found one pearl, &c....
Again, the kingdom of heaven That is, one that earnestly seeks for it; is like unto a merchant-man , who goes about from one city or country to an...
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 Israe...
Various Parables. 44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a...
Ver. 45,46. The state of the gospel dispensation is such, that men in it having a discovery of more excellent things than before they were aware of,...
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 11:1...
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....
Two Further Parables of the Kingly Rule of Heaven (13:44-46). Each of the next three parables commences with ‘the Kingly Rule of Heaven is like un...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 13:47 . Net. —The reference is to the large drag-net or seine , [σαγήνη—hence sagena (Vulgate) and English sean or...
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 th...
Matthew 13:44-46 It appears to me that there are four great tests of value. I. The first test of value is rarity. A thing is valuable according t...
Matthew 13:45-46 The true lessons of this parable are briefly these: I. It represents the experience, not of a careless or a profane man, who stu...
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: H...
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: J...
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...
Seeking goodly pearls. Parable of the pearl I. The soul seeking good. II. The soul seeking good will always want a better. III. The soul,...
EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter ( Matthew 13:1-40 ). (1) We have here a collect...
1 Corinthians 3:21-23 ; 1 John 5:11 ; 1 John 5:12 ; Acts 20:24 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Ephesians 3:8 ; Galatians 6:14 ; Isaiah 33:6 ; Luke 18:28-...
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.