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David Guzik commentary on Matthew 13, where Jesus teaches in parables, including the parable of the seed and the soil and the parable of the mustard seed.
13:1-23 Jesus entered into a boat that he might be the less pressed, and be the better heard by the people. By this he teaches us in the outward circumstances of worship not to covet that which is stately, but to make the best of the conveniences God in his providence allots to us.
Matthew 13:1-58 is a very important chapter in the pattern of the gospel. (i) It shows a definite turning-point in the ministry of Jesus. At the beginning of his ministry we find him teaching in the synagogues; but now we find him teaching on the seashore. The change is very significant.
We are not to dibble in the Word, we are to throw it as far as we can, and to let it fall wherever God pleases. “Some seeds fell by the way side,” — on ground trodden hard by the passers-by. Matthew 13:4. And the fowls came and devoured them up: Those fowls are always ready to devour the good seed.
Matthew prefaced Jesus’ first parable by introducing what follows as parabolic teaching. The Greek word parabole is a noun, and paraballo is the verb meaning "to throw beside." The noun means, "a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle."
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