26 When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 EXEGESIS: MATTHEW 12-13. 3. Isaiah 44:6-8 is a short, defensible unit, marked off from the unit that follows (verses 9-20) which shifts to prose in the NRSV (contrast NIV and TNK). 2. The multitude went away (as most people do from sermons) never the wiser, understanding nothing of what they heard, nor caring to understand it. (Poole), b. Perhaps when Jesus says that the angels will collect all skandala to burn in the fire, he means that everything within us that causes sin will be burned away. c. Kept secret from the foundation of the world: Later, Paul expresses this same idea about the church in Ephesians 3:4-11. ii. Prophets The language suggests that Jesus was thinking of the Old Testament use of the tree as an image for a great empire (see especially Ezekiel 17:23; 31:3-9; Daniel 4:10-12). (France), iii. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. i. In this sense they were examples of mercy given to the undeserving. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. Merciful God, you plant each of us like seeds in the same field and together we are nourished and nurtured by the sun. The kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet: Jesus shows that the world will remain divided right up until the end, and the Church will not reform the world, ushering in the kingdom. This parable accurately describes what the kingdom community became in the decades and centuries after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. a. ii. This was especially meaningful in light of the rising opposition to Jesus. Was he a wheat or a weed? There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Pauline Epistles Then He spoke many things to them in parables, a. 13:1-23 Jesus entered into a boat that he might be the less pressed, and be the better heard by the people. In the end, in fact, evil will be removed and eliminated: at the time of harvest, that is, of judgment, the harvesters will follow the orders of the field owner, separating the weed to burn it (cf. Taking out the weeds early on may not serve the purpose of God. Sin comes from the human heart (kardia) (15:18-20), which in Greek refers to the inner self, the mind and will. Our weed-like tendency is to judge others and choke those who are not like-minded to the point of making them quit from the community. Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 - Center for Excellence in Preaching The "Parable of the Weeds" is part of a cluster of parables that has to do with God's kingdom (and the Year A Lectionary is dealing with these various parables one at a time). He got engaged with her just to advance himself in his career. Whether judgment is focused within the church or without, it does serious damage to the church and its mission. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.. a. i. Catholics striving for holiness. People come together for work, for worship, for worthwhile pursuits or other worldly matters. Commentary on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Jesus tells a second parable about sowing seeds, this time about two sowers one who sows good seed to grow wheat, and the enemy who sows weeds among the wheat. f. But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear: In light of this, those who do understand the parables of Jesus are genuinely blessed. It describes this particular season of Jesus ministry, again in the context of increasing opposition from the Jewish leaders. b. b. The enemys purpose in sowing tares among the wheat was to destroy the wheat. As he sowed, some seed fell by the waysideon stony placesamong thornson good ground: In this parable the seed fell on four different types of soil. Matt 13:24-30 and 36-43, the parable of the tares and its interpretation, recall in several respects 13:3-9 and 18-23, the parable of the sower and its interpretation. The generation Jesus meant cannot be the generation of the disciples, because they never saw Jesus return in glory as described in Matthew 24:30. The Greek parabole is wider than our parable; in the LXX it translates masal, which includes proverbs, riddles and wise sayings as well as parables. b. Before one can be a sower, he must be an eater and a receiver. i. It is curious that the evil one goes at night to sow weed, in the dark, in confusion; he goes where there is no light to sow weed. Satan has a shoot of iniquity for every shoot of grace; and, when God revives his work, Satan revives his also. (Clarke), iii. The main idea is that the disciples who had just claimed to understand what Jesus taught are now responsible to bring forth their understanding to others, as if they were distributing from the storehouse of their wisdom and understanding. Minor Prophets Is this not the carpenters son: This question was asked out of ignorant prejudice. There is additional significance in saying, The field is the world instead of The field is Israel. This brief statement presupposes a mission beyond Israel. (Carson). By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Thanks in advance and God bless you and your loved ones! The wayside soil represents those who never really hear the word with understanding. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, However, Jesus did not deny their claim to understand. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Looking back, events in the Twentieth Century remind us that evil takes root even in the greatest good. Luke-Acts i. Confused and bored, he eventually left the cult and became a skeptic. Matthew 13:1. 12 SINS WHICH MUST BE CONFESSED FIRST BEFORE RECEIVING COMMUNION. We must be very careful not to make allegories of the parables. (Barclay). Matthew 13 - The Kingdom Parables A. They presented Gods message so the spiritually sensitive could understand, but the hardened would merely hear a story without heaping up additional condemnation for rejecting Gods Word. Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. Wisdom Literature a 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. You under the Gospel are made to know what the greatest and best of men under the law could not discover. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. Without a parable He did not speak to them: This does not mean that Jesus never, in His entire teaching and preaching ministry, spoke in anything other than a parable. The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls: Again, Jesus is the buyer and the individual believer is the pearl that He sees as so valuable that He would happily give all to have it forever. b. 3. By condeming the hypocrites, he affirms the values they are supposed to represent. The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seedwhen it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree: Some, or even most, regard this as a description of the growth and eventual dominance of the church, the kingdom community. Bible Commentaries; matthew-13:31-32-kjv; Matthew-13:31-32-kjv. And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. (Matthew 13:44) The parable of the hidden treasure. Your partnership makes all we do possible. The one thing they have in common is that they were sown of the Lord, and from the good seed of His Word. Let us ask Our Lady, our Mother, to help us to grow in patience, in hope and in mercy with all brothers and sisters. The farmer allows the two kinds of plant to grow alongside each other until the harvest. Bible Study / Commentaries and Meditations . iii. i. Wisdom Literature The parable of the weeds, a parable unique to Matthew among the four canonical gospels, (Matthew 13:24-30; Gospel of Thomas 57), shows us that he believed the present time is a time of grace in which God allows weeds and wheat to grow together and it is God's to judge which is which. Some corrupting influence is brought, and an influence that may look genuine even as tares may resemble real wheat. Knowing the explanation of this parable as explained in Matthew 13:36-43, we understand why Jesus said it right after explaining the parable of the sower, especially with the seed that grew up among the thorns. His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas: Jesus plainly had many brothers and sisters; the Roman Catholic idea of the perpetual virginity of Mary is in contradiction to the plain meaning of the Bible. a. These events and Jesus' return won't be on some 1,000-year timetable, but will happen in succession. 1. (Matthew 13:47-50) The parable of the dragnet. Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field: In His explanation, Jesus made it clear what the different figures in the parable represent. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2014/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20140720.html. One of Satans chief works is to keep men in darkness regarding their understanding of the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). c. The enemy who sowed them is the devil: Clearly, the enemy plants counterfeits in the world and in the kingdom community, and this is why merely being a member of the Christian community isnt enough. The story takes place in a field where the owner sows grain, but during the night his enemy comes and sows weed, a term which in Hebrew derives from the same root as the name Satan and which alludes to the concept of division. Thank God it is not up to us! For this parable too, Jesus offers an allegorical interpretation to his disciples in private. The fuming master watched in silence as the servant went about doing the household chores. All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open My mouth in parables; a. No human is able to pluck out the inner self. This enemy is astute: he sows evil in the middle of good, thus it is impossible for us men to distinctly separate them; but God, in the end, will be able to do so. i. The servants wanted to uproot the weed immediately, but the field owner stopped them, explaining that:in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them (Mt 13:29). This casts special scorn upon the great evil angel. The New Testament He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. HOMILY FOR THE 2ND SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A. POPE FRANCIS ON THE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A, POPE FRANCIS ON THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A, POPE BENEDICT XVI ON THE 1ST SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR A. HOMILY FOR THE 7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A. HOMILY FOR THE 6TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A, POPE FRANCIS MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 2023, POPE FRANCIS ON THE 5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A. The field is the world: Significantly, this parable illustrates not necessarily that there will be false believers among true believers in the church (though that is also true to some extent); otherwise Jesus would have explained that the field is the church. He got into a boat and sat: Jesus sometimes used a boat as His pulpit (Mark 4:1). It is undoubtedly the generation that sees these signs. And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 37.] Yet leaven is consistently used as a picture of sin and corruption (especially in the Passover narrative of Exodus 12:8, 12:15-20). The explanation of the parable of the Sower had been given apparently in the boat in which our Lord sat with His disciples. Wheat and Weeds, Good and Evil - Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com; Living Space - Commentaries on the Daily Readings - Sunday of week 16 of Ordinary Time Bible Study Lesson Plans - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time - St. Charles Borromeo ; Agape Bible Study - The Gospel of Matthew - The Parables of the Kingdom - 2 Handouts 25 While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. We whip ourselves into a weeding frenzy, certain that we know the difference between weeds and wheat, and that we know how to deal with the weeds! And God does not pull people out of the mire of their . Jesus does not, however, say whom the slaves represent. GOSPEL OF SATURDAY, 16TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIMEMt 13:2430, Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds. We can be weeds if we allow the devil to sow his seeds in us2. Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV): 24 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field: The field is the world, but the man does not represent the believer, because we have nothing to buy this treasure with. Peradventure you will be judging the preacher, but a greater than the preacher will be judging you, for the Word itself shall judge you. (Spurgeon), ii. i. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Jesus says that at the end of the age, the angels will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin (skandala) and all evildoers, and will throw them into the furnace of fire (13:41). Pulling them out early on will prevent us from the opportunity to bloom where we are placed, to be refined and readied for harvest. You could not blame the differences in results on the sower or on the seed, but only on the soil. The New Testament (Matthew 13:10-17) Why did Jesus use parables? All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. People are now so sermon-trodden many of them, that their hearts, like footpaths, grow hard by the word, which takes no more impression than rain doth upon a rock: they have brawny breasts, horny heart-strings, dead and dedolent dispositions. (Trapp). 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. The same day Our Lord scarcely ever appears to take any rest: he is incessant in his labours, and instant in season and out of season; and in this he has left all his successors in the ministry an example, that they should follow his steps: for he who wishes to save souls will find few opportunities to rest. We sway in the wind and are refreshed by the rain. The difference between darnel and real wheat is evident only when the plants mature and the ears appear. Pentateuch 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven: Jesus used a surprising picture here. This has played out far too many times in congregations and denominations, with some determined to root out anyone who does not agree with the right interpretation of Scripture, liturgical practice, or stand on a particular issue. Implying that this was Jesus constant customIn short parables were an essential part of his spoken ministry. (Carson). Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. O my dear hearers, you undergo a test today! Justin Martyr, an ancient writer, testifieth, that our Saviour, ere he entered upon the ministry, made ploughs, yokes, and so forth. Even though it might seem that few respond, God is in control and the harvest will certainly come. Pauline Epistles How then does it have tares? He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Do you want us then to go and gather them up? But he said, No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Mt 13:30). The Word of God must be understood before it can truly bear fruit. Ultimately it is not the job of the church to weed out those who appear to be Christians but actually are not; that is Gods job at the end of this age. Wisdom Literature Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, 1. a. Who among us has not questioned why God allows evil to grow and thrive? There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.. Johannine Writings A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house: We often have wrong ideas about what it means to be spiritual. Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given: Jesus explained that He used parables so that the hearts of those rejecting would not be hardened further. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. In the parable of the soils, the seed represented the Word of God; here it represents true believers. The Old Testament The way Jesus used parables prompted the disciples to ask this. John 6:42). (France), ii. He compares it to a man who sows good wheat in his field, but later an enemy sows toxic, unproductive tares. (24) Another parable. And for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field: The treasure so wonderful that Jesus would give all to purchase is the individual believer. The devil is so cunning that he plants these seeds in each one of us envy, judgmental behavior, hot-temperedness, domineering attitude, penchant for lies, resentment and tries to pit us against each other in a group to divide us and destroy the peace and unity that we have. Magistrates and churches may remove the openly wicked from their society; the outwardly good who are inwardly worthless they must leave; for the judging of hearts is beyond their sphere. (Spurgeon), iv. Copyright All rights reserved. Yet He carefully said that the field is the world. (Matthew 13:24-30) The parable of the wheat and the tares. In this context, to hide the truth from those who would not listen to the Holy Spirit. In those days, seed was scattered first and then it was plowed into the ground. THE CONTEXT: Chapter 12 seethes with conflict. The wise farmer recognized that the ultimate answer to tares among the wheat would only come at the final harvest. iii. The New Testament 1. 2. d. The reapers are angels The Son of Man will send out His angels: We often dont consider that the angels of God have a special role in the judgment of the world. Who among us has not wanted to take matters into our own hands and root out the evil in our midst? Passwords should have at least 6 characters. Good ground describes soil that is both fertile and weed-free. "The Wheat & The Tares," Matthew 13:24-30, Martin Luther, c. 1525. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. But was not that an honest occupation? (Trapp), iii. Where then did this Man get all these things?. He always forgives us if we go to him. The scribes amongst the Jews were not only clerks, that were employed in writing, but teachers of the law; such a one was Ezra (Ezra 7:6). (Poole). 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. On this ground the seed springs up quickly because of the warmth of the soil, but the seed is unable to take root because of the rocky shelf. The Gospels Jesus announced Gods kingdom, and this would lead many of his hearers to expect a cataclysmic disruption of society, an immediate and absolute division between the sons of light and the sons of darknessIt was to this impatience that the parable was primarily directed. (France). Each one of us can be made into a weed when we cannot cope and live with the differences of opinion and perspectives that exist in our community. This one came out of the granary the place where seed is stored and from his Bible the sower brought forth seed. Not only are certain motifs-sowing, seeds, soil, kingdom, obstacles to growth, the devil or the evil one-repeated, but both parables . Matthew 13. Minor Prophets Why do You speak to them in parables? When it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches: Again many, or even most, regard this as a beautiful picture of the church growing so large that it provides refuge for all of the world. Lk 18:11-12). Perhaps the slaves represent the disciples, or anyone who hears this parable and its interpretation. God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Catholic Church Teaching, Bible, Catechism, Prayers, Saints, Virgin Mary, Apostles, Pope Francis, Vatican, Catholic News, Life Issues . Where have the weeds come from? He answered, An enemy has done this. His slaves said to him, Do you want us to go and pull them up? He replied, No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. But after two years, he had a third woman. On the day of the final harvest,the judge will be Jesus, He who has sown good grain in the world and who himself became the grain of wheat, who died and rose. ii. For us who are weeds or know of people who are weeds, we must not despair. (Matthew 13:45-46) The parable of the costly pearl. ii. Then He spoke many things to them in parables, a. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. God is patient, he knows how to wait. ver. "The Kingdom of Heaven," he said to them, "is like what happened when a man sowed good seed in his field. Only then does he separate the good from the bad. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When we deprive others of that same opportunity, forgive us. b. This seems to be a temptation for followers of Jesus in every age. 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