B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
Matthew 13:45
merchant man seeking goodly pearls.
Pearls were then esteemed as the most valuable ornaments and were sought by merchants on distant shores, the most valuable being brought from the Indian Ocean.
merchant man seeking goodly pearls.
Pearls were then esteemed as the most valuable ornaments and were sought by merchants on distant shores, the most valuable being brought from the Indian Ocean.
Verse 45. _A MERCHANT MAN, SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS_] A story very like this is found in the Talmudical tract _Shabbath_: "Joseph, who sanctified the Sabbath, had a very rich neighbour; the Chaldeans sa...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MERCHANTMAN - The meaning is, that the proper seeking for salvation, or the proper conduct in reference to religion, is like the conduct of a “merchantman.” In his...
II. THE REJECTED KINGDOM AND THE REJECTED KING. CHAPTER S 13-28. 1. The King at the Seaside. The Mysteries of the Kingdom. CHAPTER 13 1. The King at the Seaside. (Matthew 13:1 .) 2. The Parable of...
FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM. The treasure and the pearl (Matthew 13:44) are one, and have one point everything must be sacrificed for the highest good, the Kingdom. This urgent, intense wholeheart...
MANY THINGS IN PARABLES (Matthew 13:1-58) Matthew 13:1-58 is a very important chapter in the pattern of the gospel. (i) It shows a definite turning-point in the ministry of Jesus. At the beginning of...
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant who was seeking goodly pearls. When he had found a very valuable pearl, he went away and sold everything he had, and bought it." In the ancient world...
A MERCHANT MAN. a man,. merchant. Compare Matthew 13:28, "an enemy"....
The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price, in St Matthew only Here the story is of one who succeeds in getting what he strives to obtain. The Jewish or the Greek "seekers after God," possessing many pe...
45, 46. THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, in St Matthew only. Here the story is of one who succeeds in getting what he strives to obtain. The Jewish or the Greek ‘seekers after God,’ possessing...
VER 45. "AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MERCHANT MAN, SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS: 46. WHO, WHEN HE HAD FOUND ONE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, WENT AND SOLD ALL THAT HE HAD, AND BOUGHT IT." Chrys.: Th...
_THE PARABLES OF PRECIOUS THINGS MATTHEW 13:44-46:_ In Jesus' day the safest place to keep treasures was buried. That idea led to the parable of treasure hidden in a field. The man that found the trea...
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DISCOURSE: 1365 THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Matthew 13:45. _The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant-man seeking goodly pearls: who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all th...
AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO TREASURE— These three following parables are proposed not so much to the multitude, as to the apostles particularly. The parable of the _treasure_ which a man...
D. THE INESTIMABLE VALUE OF THE KINGDOM: THE PRICE OF TRUTH 2. THE PARABLE OF THE PRECIOUS PEARL TEXT: 13:45, 46 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly...
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MERCHANTMAN, SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS: AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIK...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
13:45 merchant (i-10) Lit. 'a man a merchant.'...
A DAY OF PARABLES 1-3a. Teaching by parables begun (Mark 4:1; Luke 8:4). This chapter introduces a new type of teaching, that by parables. St. Matthew gives us a group of seven, the first four of whic...
THE HIDDEN TREASURE AND THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE (peculiar to St. Matthew). These two parables were addressed to the disciples in the house on the subject of personal religion. Their teaching is that...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 STORIES ABOUT WHERE GOD RULES 13:1-52 Matthew wrote down a lot of the things that Jesus taught. This chapter is the third section...
LIKE UNTO A MERCHANT MAN, SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS. — Here again the illustration would commend itself to the thoughts of the fishermen of Galilee. The caprices of luxury in the Roman empire had given a...
CHAPTER 11 The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1 "THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side." We can well imagine that, after such a series of discouragements and mortifi...
_Three other parables: the Treasure, the Pearl, the Net_....
ἐμπόρῳ ζ. κ. μ. A pearl merchant who went to the pearl fisheries to purchase from the divers, of course selecting the best; a connoisseur in valuables....
SECURING TREASURE; REJECTING THE BAD Matthew 13:44-50 The parables of treasure and pearl are a pair. They describe the various ways we come to know God's truth. Some happen on it suddenly. They are...
This chapter contains the seven parables of the Kingdom. The reason for the parabolic teaching of Christ is set forth here. This first parable was spoken to the multitudes (verses Mat 13:2-3). Its exp...
CHAPTER 27 THE LEAVEN Matthew 13:33. _“He spake another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all were leav...
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. (45) Agai...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_TREASURE AND MERCHANT-MAN_ ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field … is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls.’ Matthew 13:44 The two parables should be taken togethe...
The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that w...
Ver. 45 46. AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MERCHANT MAN,.... This parable may be understood of Christ's seeking, finding, and purchasing his elect: for, certain it is, that he has sought...
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Ver. 45. _The kingdom of heaven, &c._] The wise merchant, besides the pearl of price, seeks out other goodly pearls, c...
_Again, the kingdom of heaven_ That is, one that earnestly seeks for it; _is like unto a merchant-man_, who goes about from one city or country to another, _seeking goodly_, or _beautiful pearls_, or...
This chapter begins a new division of the book. Israel is looked at as set aside because of unbelief: the Lord went out of the house (typically Israel's house), and set by the seaside. The sea is typi...
44-52 Here are four parables. 1. That of the treasure hid in the field. Many slight the gospel, because they look only upon the surface of the field. But all who search the Scriptures, so as in them...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 13:46"....
Cyprian Treatise VIII On Works and Alms He says: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls. And when he found a precious pearl, he went away and sold all that he had, an...
Matthew 13:45 Again G3825 kingdom G932 heaven G3772 is G2076 (G5748) like G3664 merchant G1713 G444 seeking...
JESUS SPEAKS TO HIS DISCIPLES IN PARABLES SO THAT THEIR EYES MAY BE OPENED (13:34-52). This next part-section is also in the form of a chiasmus. ANALYSIS. a Jesus speaks in parables not only for th...
THE EIGHT PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:1-53). Having made clear that the Kingly Rule of Heaven is advancing forcefully (Matthew 11:12) and that through Jesus' activities as the Servant of...
TWO FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:44-46). Each of the next three parables commences with ‘the Kingly Rule of Heaven is like unto --.' The first two are basically parallel pictures,...
“Again, the kingly rule of heaven is like to a man who is a merchant seeking goodly pearls, and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” In contrast the...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Evangelist has just represented our Lord in opposition to the Pharisees. (A few events probably intervened; see Luke 11-13.) Thus His claims as the Messiah came out more fully....
These three parables relate mainly to human effort in the development of the kingdom of heaven. The last one corresponds to the second, while the fifth and sixth form a pair; the transition of thought...
Matthew 13:45. MERCHANT SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS. One who is making it his business to seek what is valuable, what is true and right....
PEARLS The true Church, "one body" formed by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:12). As Israel is the hid treasure, so the Church is the pearl of great cost. Covering the same period of time as the my...
Matthew 13:44 It appears to me that there are four great tests of value. I. The first test of value is rarity. A thing is valuable according to its scarceness. Apply this test to religion. It is holi...
Matthew 13:3 The Parables of the Kingdom. I. Taking these seven parables all together, notice, first, the fact that our Lord, in describing the kingdom of heaven, did deliberately use many parables,...
Matthew 13:45 The true lessons of this parable are briefly these: I. It represents the experience, not of a careless or a profane man, who stumbles suddenly upon the Gospel when he was in in search o...
Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ He knew that it was good. It had been tested: it was u...
Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
CONTENTS: Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The sower, tares and wheat, grain of mustard seed, leaven, hid treasure, pearl, drag net. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The pr...
Matthew 13:2. _He went into a ship._ A small vessel or boat, probably belonging to one of the disciples, several of whom were fishermen. Matthew 13:3. _He spake many things to them in parables._ On th...
45-46 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A BUYER. Pearls were extremely valuable. When he finds one unusually fine, he sells everything to be able to buy it. The treasure of Matthew 13:44 was found by acci...
_Seeking goodly pearls._ PARABLE OF THE PEARL I. The soul seeking good. II. The soul seeking good will always want a better. III. The soul, seeking good, wants a better until it finds Christ the b...
THE PEARL Goodly pearls. Matthew 13:45. The stone usually given to October is the opal; but unfortunately the opal is not mentioned in the Bible, so we shall have to find a gem to take its place. W...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:45 Unlike the man who stumbled upon the hidden treasure (v. Matthew 13:44), this MERCHANT searched diligently for the...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:1 The Messianic Kingdom Revealed in Parables. This is the third of Jesus’ five major teachings (see Introduction: Key Themes). It is a collection of parables....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:47. NET.—The reference is to the large drag-net or _seine_, [σαγήνη—hence _sagena_ (Vulgate) and English _sean_ or _seine_]. One end of the _seine_ is held on the shore, t...
EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter (Matthew 13:1). (1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as it would appear, at...
Now as we enter into the thirteenth chapter, we come into the area of the parables that deal with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. And in these we have more or less a key to all parables. And y...
Ecclesiastes 12:13; Ecclesiastes 12:8; Ecclesiastes 2:2; Job 28:18;...
The kingdom of heaven — That is, one who earnestly seeks for it: in Matthew 13:47 it means, the Gospel preached, which is like a net gathering of every kind: just so the Gospel, wherever it is preache...