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They said to Him, Yes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jesus Revisits Nazareth</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>When Jesus had finished these parables, He departed from there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>He came to His hometown and <i>began</i> teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Where <i>did</i> this man <i>get</i> this wisdom and <i>these</i> miraculous powers? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>Is not this the carpenters son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then <i>did</i> this man <i>get</i> all these things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his <i>own</i> household. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/13-58.htm" target="_top"><b>58</b></a></span>And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/matthew/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/matthew/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/matthew/13.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of every kind,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/matthew/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/matthew/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/matthew/13.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />"Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/matthew/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/matthew/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_xxii_toleration.htm">Toleration</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Preached at Christ Church, Marylebone, 1867, for the Bishop of London's Fund.) MATTHEW xiii. 24-30. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the household came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_xxii_toleration.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">Discipline and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/to_him_that_hath_shall.htm"> 'To Him that Hath Shall be Given'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.'-- MATT. xiii. 12. There are several instances in the Gospels of our Lord's repetition of sayings which seem to have been, if we may use the expression, favourites with Him; as, for instance, 'There are first which shall be last, and there are last which shall be first'; or, again, 'The servant is not greater than his master, nor the disciple than his lord.' <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/to_him_that_hath_shall.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/leaven.htm">Leaven</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and bid to three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'--MATT. xiii. 33. How lovingly and meditatively Jesus looked upon homely life, knowing nothing of the differences, the vulgar differences, between the small and great! A poor woman, with her morsel of barm, kneading it up among three measures of meal, in some coarse earthenware pan, stands to Him as representing the whole process of His work in the world. Matthew brings <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/leaven.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/ears_and_no_ears.htm">Ears and no Ears</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.--MATT. xiii. 8. This saying was frequently on our Lord's lips, and that in very various connections. He sometimes, as in the instance before us, appended it to teaching which, from its parabolic form, required attention to disentangle the spiritual truth implied. He sometimes used it to commend some strange, new revolutionary teaching to men's investigation--as, for instance, after that great declaration of the nullity of ceremonial worship, how that nothing <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/ears_and_no_ears.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/seeing_and_blind.htm">Seeing and Blind</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'They seeing, see not.'--MATT. xiii, 13. This is true about all the senses of the word 'seeing'; there is not one man in ten thousand who sees the things before his eyes. Is not this the distinction, for instance, of the poet or painter, and man of science--just that they do see? How true is this about the eye of the mind, what a small number really understand what they know! But these illustrations are of less moment than the saddest example--religious indifference. I wish to speak about this now, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/seeing_and_blind.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/four_sowings_and_one_ripening.htm">Four Sowings and one Ripening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto Him, so that He went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 8. And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4. And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 6. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/four_sowings_and_one_ripening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/mingled_in_growth_separated_in.htm">Mingled in Growth, Separated in Maturity</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28. He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/mingled_in_growth_separated_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/treasure_and_pearl.htm">Treasure and Pearl</a><br></span><span class="snippet">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 all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman, seeking goodly pearls: 46. Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.'--MATT. xiii. 44-46. In this couple of parables, which are twins, and must be taken together, our Lord utilises two very familiar facts <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/treasure_and_pearl.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxiii_on_the_words.htm">On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, Etc. , Where the Lord Jesus Explaineth the Parables of the Sower. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Both yesterday and to-day ye have heard the parables of the sower, in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Do ye who were present yesterday, recollect to-day. Yesterday we read of that sower, who when he scattered seed, "some fell by the way side," [2507] which the birds picked up; "some in stony places," which dried up from the heat; "some among thorns, which were choked," and could not bring forth fruit; and "other some into good ground, and it brought forth fruit, a hundred, sixty, thirty fold." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxiii_on_the_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">sermons on selected lessons of the new testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxiv_on_the_words.htm">On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 52, "Therefore Every Scribe who Hath Been Made a Disciple to the Kingdom of Heaven," Etc. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The lesson of the Gospel reminds me to seek out, and to explain to you, Beloved, as the Lord shall give me power, who is "that Scribe instructed in the kingdom of God, who is "like unto an householder bringing out of his treasure things new and old." [2524] For here the lesson ended. "What are the new and old things of an instructed Scribe?" Now it is well known who they were, whom the ancients, after the custom of our Scriptures, called Scribes, those, namely, who professed the knowledge of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxiv_on_the_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">sermons on selected lessons of the new testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_34_1888/sown_among_thorns.htm">Sown among Thorns</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEN that which comes of his sowing is unfruitful, the sower's work is wasted: he has spent his strength for nothing. Without fruit the sower's work would even seem to be insane, for he takes good wheat, throws it away, and loses it in the ground. Preaching is the most idle of occupations if the Word is not adapted to enter the heart, and produce good results. O my hearers, if you are not converted, I waste time and energy in standing here! People might well think it madness that one whole day in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_34_1888/sown_among_thorns.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 34: 1888</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/matthew/13-47.htm">Matthew 13:47 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/13-46.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 13:46"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 13:46" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/13-48.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 13:48"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 13:48" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/matthew/13-47.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>