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MATTHEW 13:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:8Matt 13:10
“Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
He who has ears, let him hear. The parable closes with the summons to spiritual hearing — the invitation to those who can hear at the level deeper than the agricultural story. The parable itself is a test of the soil: those who press Jesus for the meaning (like the disciples in verse 10) demonstrate the good-soil receptivity; those who hear and walk away demonstrate the path, rocky, or thorny soil.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:9

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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