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MATTHEW 13:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:1Matt 13:3
“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.”
And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. The crowd that gathered was so large that Jesus uses a boat as a floating pulpit — the crowd stands on the beach while Jesus teaches from the water. The visual image communicates the scale of the audience and the creative problem-solving that Jesus' ministry required. The boat-and-beach arrangement is the natural amphitheater of the Galilean lakeside.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:2

When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He then paid the honour due to His mother, as it is said, 'The same day Jesus went forth out of the house, and not down by the sea aide.

Chrysostom · 4th century

By the words, 'The same day,' he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed 'day' here after the Scripture manner signifies a period.

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 41

For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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