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 # Mt 13:5
    \\Some fell upon stony places.\\ Where the rocks that jut out
 of the hills into the plain had a very thin covering of earth.
 Much of Palestine is stony.
 (PNT 76)
00401
 # Mt 13:6
    \\And when the sun had risen, they were scorched.\\ It was
 not rooted in that deep, moist soil which would have enabled it
 to resist the scorching heat of the sun.
 (PNT 76)
00402
 # Mt 13:7
    \\And some fell among thorns.\\ More literally, "into the
 thorns." The traveller, today, finds Palestine literally a land
 of thorns, of thistles, brambles, and thorny bushes.
    \\Thorns sprung up, and choked them.\\ Or, as Wycliffe
 renders it, "The thorns sprang up and strangled it." The thorns
 suffocated the growing plant.
 (PNT 76)
00403
 # Mt 13:8
    \\But others fell into good ground.\\ The goodness of this
 last soil consists in its qualities being precisely the reverse
 of the other three soils. It was not hard, stony, or weedy.
    \\Some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.\\
 Thirty-fold is now really a first-rate crop, even for such
 plains as Esdraelon, just below Nazareth. But in the time of
 Christ there might be realized, in favourable circumstances, a
 hundred-fold. Intelligent gentlemen (in the plain of Esdraelon)
 maintain that they have themselves reaped more than a
 hundred-fold.--"Land and Book."
 (PNT 76)
00404
 # Mt 13:9
    \\Let him hear.\\ Give heed and seek to understand.
 (PNT 76)
00406
 # Mt 13:11
    \\Given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom.\\ The
 unexpected way in which Christ would fulfill prophecy was a mystery
 to many.  That the Messiah would be "lifted up" on the cross, suffer
 and then be raised to sit on his glorious throne was a mystery to the
 uninstructed, and still is today.
 # 1Co 2:6,11
 (PL)
00407
 # Mt 13:12
    \\Whoever hath.\\ Those who have been made some spiritual
 progress will go on, and have greater knowledge.
    \\Whoever hath not.\\ No desire for spiritual knowledge.
 Such shall become dwarfed, and lose even their capacity for
 spiritual things; a truth constantly illustrated. Whoever uses
 his opportunities will grow; whoever abuses them will lose them.
 (PNT 77)
00408
 # Mt 13:13
    \\Because they seeing see not.\\ Do not see in the true light
 on account of their spiritual ignorance and depravity. The
 desire to see spiritually is essential to clear perceptions of
 truth.
 (PNT 77)
00409
 # Mt 13:14-16
    \\The prophecy of Isaiah.\\ See
 # Isa 6:9,10
 Isaiah describes a spiritual state that existed in the time of
 Christ, and is often met still, when, on account of hardness of
 heart and love of the world, men cannot understand the gospel
 and be converted. It is caused by their own fault. If they would
 fall out with sin, and come to Christ with a broken and contrite
 spirit, they would be healed.
 (PNT 77)
00412
 # Mt 13:17
    \\Desired to see [the things] which ye see.\\ The prophets
 and righteous had longed for the coming of Christ. His disciples
 enjoyed it.
 (PNT 77)
00413
 # Mt 13:18-23
    \\Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.\\ The seed sown is
 His Word, the Gospel of the Kingdom. The soil is human hearts. Four
 kinds are described:
 (1) The \\wayside\\ hearer; the forgetful hearer on whom no effect is
     produced.  The seed is snatched away and does not germinate.
 (2) The \\stony\\ hearer; the heart that exhibits a positive response
     to the gospel but lacks good roots.  He falls away at the first
     sign of persecution.
 (3) The \\thorny soil\\; the heart that takes in the Word, but is so
     full of worldly cares that he has no strength to reproduce.  This
     one bears no fruit for the Lord.
 (4) The \\good soil\\; the good and honest heart; the heart that
     receives and retains the truth. In such a heart the seed will
     grow and reproduce.
 (PNT 77-78 edited)
00419
 # Mt 13:24
    \\Kingdom of heaven is likened to a man who sowed.\\ The kingdom
 of heaven is not like likened to the "field," nor to the "enemy" who
 sowed the tares, but to "the man who sowed the good seed." The
 kingdom does what the Sower is doing. It sows the good seed.
    \\Good seed.\\ It is declared in verse 19 that the seed is
 the "word of the kingdom," and in verse 38 that the "good seed"
 are "the children of the kingdom."
 # 13:19,38
 These are those in whose heart the good seed has fallen, and
 their new lives, as children of the kingdom, are the fruit of
 the good seed.
    \\In his field.\\ What then is represented by the field?
 (1) It is not the kingdom, or church, for this is represented
     by "the man that sowed good seed in his field."
 (2) It is the place where the good seed is sown by the Son of
     man or through his agency; in other words, the place where
     the gospel is preached to men.
 (3) Verse 38 states that "the field is the world."
 # 13:38
 (PNT 78 edited)
00420
 # Mt 13:25
    \\But while men slept.\\ During sleep is the time of the
 tare-sowing.
    \\His enemy came and sowed.\\ It is by no means uncommon for
 the malice in the East to show itself in this way. A wicked
 person may do great injury with little chance of detection.
    \\Tares.\\ The tare or darnel is, like our chess or cheat, a
 kind of bastard wheat, looking like wheat.
 (PNT 78)
00422
 # Mt 13:27
    \\From which then hath it tares?\\ When the harvest was near
 at hand the difference was seen.
 (PNT 78)
00423
 # Mt 13:28
    \\An enemy hath done this.\\ The great enemy, the prince of
 the world, who sows evil seed in human hearts.
    \\Wilt thou then that we go and gather them?\\ It has been
 assumed by one class of interpreters that this a question
 whether discipline shall be administered upon recreant church
 members. If the field in which the tares are growing with the
 wheat is "the world," then it refers to something quite
 different.
 (PNT 78-79)
00424
 # Mt 13:29
    \\Nay; lest . . . ye root up also the wheat with them.\\ The
 roots of the wheat and tares were often so intertwined that one
 could not be pulled up without the other.
 (PNT 79)
00425
 # Mt 13:30
    \\Let both grow together until the harvest.\\ The time of
 separation will come at last. The righteous shall not always be
 vexed by the presence and deeds of evil doers. Harvest time will
 come, and that is the time of separation. The tares, ripened and
 manifest, can easily be sifted out from the wheat. For the
 application of the parable,
 see note on "Mt 13:36"
 (PNT 79)
00426
 # Mt 13:31
    \\Like a grain of mustard seed.\\ Compare
 # Lu 13:18-21
 The Jews grew mustard in their gardens. Its small round seed is
 symbolic of the kingdom of heaven, which was very small at its
 beginning.
 # Mr 4:31
 (PNT 70 edited)
00427
 # Mt 13:32
    \\Which indeed is the least of all seeds.\\ The least of all
 the field or garden seeds sown in Palestine.
    \\But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs.\\ All
 herbs cultivated in the fields or garden of Palestine. Dr.
 Hooker measured a mustard-plant in the Jordan Valley ten feet
 high. Thus, the kingdom, from an insignificant beginning, grows
 to a mighty magnitude.
 (PNT 79)
00428
 # Mt 13:33

    \\The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.\\ A bit of leavened dough
 from an unbaked loaf was commonly used in baking.  Frequently leaven
 symbolized evil, but it is used favorably here and in:
 # Lev 7:13 23:17 Lu 13:21

    \\Three measures of meal.\\ An ephah of flour.  A small quantity
 of leaven is "hid" in the large batch of dough.  It eventually
 permeates and changes the whole batch \\till all was leavened.\\ The
 Parable teaches that the kingdom of Christ would grow and multiply
 until it eventually changed the entire world.

 (PNT 79 edited)
00429
 # Mt 13:34
    \\Without a parable he spoke not.\\ On that occasion. His
 whole discourse to the multitude was made up of parables.
 (PNT 79)
00430
 # Mt 13:35
    \\Which was spoken by the prophet.\\ See
 # Ps 78:2
 (PNT 79)
00431
 # Mt 13:36-43
    \\Expound to us the parable of the tares.\\ The parable in
 # 13:24-30
 By a comparison we may learn:
 (1) The kingdom is likened to a man sowing good seed in his
     field.
 (2) The Sower is the Son of man, who sows by means of his
     kingdom.
 (3) The good seed is the word of God as seen in its fruits,
     Christ's followers.
 (4) The field is the world. It is Christ's field. All power is
     given to him in heaven and in earth. His kingdom is
     rightfully the whole earth, but much of it is held still by
     the enemy, who has to be conquered. He will prevail
     finally, and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the
     kingdom of the Lord and his Christ.
 (5) The wheat raised from the good seed is the "children of the
     kingdom," the disciples of Christ converted by his word.
 (6) The tares are not bad church members, but bad men; those
     who have been under the influence of the wicked one.
 (7) The righteous and wicked are to remain in the earth
     together. The righteous are not to exterminate the wicked.
     The evil and the good will be mixed until judgment day.
 (8) Then all shall be gathered at the throne of judgment. The
     righteous shall "inherit the kingdom." All that are wicked
     shall be cast out of the kingdom. An eternal separation
     shall take place.
 (PNT 80)
00439
 # Mt 13:44
    \\The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.\\
 Valuables which, with us, are entrusted to banks, are in the
 East buried in fields and gardens to save them from robbers and
 accidents.
    The parable teaches the immense value, priceless, of the
 gospel; and that one who finds out that value will give up
 everything else in order to possess himself of the privileges
 and hopes of the kingdom.
 (PNT 80)
00440
 # Mt 13:45
    \\Like a merchant seeking fine pearls.\\ Pearls were then
 esteemed as the most valuable ornaments, and were sought by
 merchants on distant shores, the most valuable being brought
 from the Indian Ocean.
 (PNT 80)
00441
 # Mt 13:46
    \\When he had found one pearl of great price.\\ He was
 willing to invest everything he had in this pearl of surpassing
 beauty and worth.
 (PNT 81)
00442
 # Mt 13:47
    \\The kingdom of heaven is like a net.\\ The Saviour's
 illustrations all relate to his audience. Many were farmers,
 merchants, or fishermen; A drag net or seine is meant.

    \\Gathered of every kind.\\ Here again, as in the parable of
 the Tares, it is taught that, at the end of the world, the
 angels shall sever the wicked from the just.
 (PNT 81 edited)
00443
 # Mt 13:48
    \\When it was full.\\ The fishermen cannot stop to sort while
 they are drawing the nest. Nor can the preachers of the gospel
 always distinguish.
 (PNT 81)
00444
 # Mt 13:49
    \\So shall it be at the end of the world.\\ Then, not men,
 but the angels, under the direction of the Son of Man, shall
 sever the wicked from the just.
 (PNT 81)
00445
 # Mt 13:50
    \\Shall cast them into the furnace of fire.\\ Here is
 repeated, word for word, the language of
 # 13:42,50
    The tares, the chaff, the corrupt trees, the barren tree, are
 all represented as burned, and here also the wicked are cast
 into a furnace. While I suppose that the language is a figure,
 it can only be understood as indicating that the sufferings of
 Gehenna, the abode of the wicked, are intense. See
 # 8:12
 (PNT 81)
00447
 # Mt 13:52
    \\Every scribe [who is] instructed\\, etc. Such will be able
 to furnish rich and suitable spiritual food. Scribes were
 theological teachers.
 (PNT 81)
00449
 # Mt 13:54
    \\When he had come into his own country.\\ To Nazareth, where
 he was brought up. Compare
 # Mr 6:1-6 Lu 4:14-29
    \\He taught them in their synagogue.\\ On the Sabbath day.
 # Mr 6:2
    \\Where hath this [man] this wisdom?\\ While admitting it,
 they were offended at it.
 # 13:58
 (PNT 81)