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MATTHEW 13:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:37Matt 13:39
“The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;”
The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one. The field is the world — not the church — which communicates that the parable addresses the mixture of the two kinds of people throughout the entire world, not only within the visible community of Jesus' followers. The sons of the kingdom and the sons of the evil one are the two populations, intertwined in the world until the harvest.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:38

The Lord had spoken to the multitude in parables, that He might induce them to ask Him of their meaning; yet, though He had spoken so many things in parables, no man had yet asked Him aug ht, and therefore He sends them away; 'Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house.' None of the Scribes followed Him here, from is which it is clear that they followed Him for no other purpose than that they might catch Him in His discourse.

Chrysostom · 4th century

The Lord sends away the multitude, and enters the house that His disciples might come to Him and ask Him privately of those things which the people neither deserved to hear, nor were able.

Jerome · 4th century

Figuratively; Having sent away the multitude of unquiet Jews, He enters the Church of the Gentiles, and there expounds to believers heavenly sacraments, whence it follows, 'And his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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