MATTHEW 13:51 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.”
Have you understood all these things? They said to him: yes. The disciples' confirmation of understanding — yes — is the good-soil response that the Parable Discourse has been teaching toward. The confirmation of understanding is the fulfillment of verse 23: the one who hears the word and understands it bears fruit. The disciples who have understood these things are positioned to be the scribes trained for the kingdom that the next verse describes.
Church Fathers on Matthew 13:51
When the multitude had departed, the Lord spoke to His disciples in parables, by which they were instructed only so far as they understood them; wherefore He asks them, 'Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.'
For this is spoken especially to the Apostles, whom He would have not to hear only as the multitude, but to understand as having to teach others.
Then He praises them because they had understood; He saith unto them; 'Therefore every Scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto an householder who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old.'
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