MATTHEW 13:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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?”
And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds? The servants' question communicates the genuine surprise: the good seed should have produced only good plants. The presence of weeds is inexplicable on the assumption that only good seed was sown. The master's answer will identify the enemy's counter-sowing as the explanation.
Church Fathers on Matthew 13:27
In the foregoing parable the Lord spoke to such as do not receive the word of God; here of those who receive a corrupting seed. This is the contrivance of the Devil, ever to mix error with truth.
He set forth also this other parable, as it were a rich householder refreshing his guests with various meats, that each one according to the nature of his stomach might find some food adapted to him. He said not 'a second parable,' but 'another;' for had He said 'a second,' we could not have looked for a third; but another prepares us for many more.
Here He calls the Son of God Himself the kingdom of heaven; for He saith, 'The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that sowed good seed in his field.'
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