The Kingdom of heaven is like yeast. Here the Kingdom is the yeast. A small amount of "old dough" was kept in a jar as a "starter." This was mixed with the flour as we use yeast today, to make it rise. Just a small pinch of yeast would spread throughout the whole bushel of flour, This is how the Kingdom/church is active in the world. (Kingdom/church see Matthew 16:18-19.)
Verse 33. _THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN_] On the nature and effects of leaven, see the note on Exodus 12:8. As the property of _leaven_ is to change, or assimulate to its own nature, the...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - The meaning here is the same as in the last parable; perhaps, however, intending to denote more properly the secret and hidden nature of piety in the soul. The other parable de...
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...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN. In those days. piece of the leavened dough from an unbaked loaf was put among the new dough to cause fermentation. Usually the term leaven is used in the Sc...
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...
LEAVEN. sour dough. Always used in. bad sense, as meal is in. good sense: therefore the common interpretation as to the Gospel's improving the world is the exact contrary of the leaven corrupting the...
(1) The Parable of the Mustard Seed. (2) The Parable of the Leaven which leavened the Meal. (1) Mark 4:30-32. (1) and (2) Luke 13:18-21 The "mystery" or secret of the future contained in these two p...
_leaven_ Except in this one parable, leaven is used of the working of evil; cp. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump," Galatians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 5:6; and "purge out therefore the old leaven,...
(1) THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED. (2) THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN WHICH LEAVENED THE MEAL (1) Mark 4:30-32. (1) and (2) Luke 13:18-21 The ‘mystery’ or secret of the future contained in these two par...
ΖΎΜΗΙ. Except in this one parable, leaven is used of the working of evil; cp. μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ, Galatians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 5:6; and ἐκκαθάρατε οὖν τὴν παλαίαν ζύμην, 1 Corinthians 5:7...
VER 33. ANOTHER PARABLE SPAKE HE UNTO THEM; "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN, WHICH A WOMAN TOOK, AND HID IN THREE MEASURES OF MEAL, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED." Chrys.: The same thing the...
_THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES MATTHEW 13:24-43_ : A man sowed good seed in his field. An enemy sowed tares among the wheat. The servants were not allowed to root up the tares least, by accident...
ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 13:3. ΖΎΜΗ (G2219) _dat. sing._ закваска; _dat._ с _adj._ В данном случае речь идет о старом, перебродившем дрожжевом тесте (DA). В иудейской символике закваска...
DISCOURSE: 1362 LEAVEN HID IN MEAL Matthew 13:33. _Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN— The meaning of this parable is commonly thought to be the same as that of the preceding; but there seems to be this difference between them; the parable of t...
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. ANOTHER PARABLE SPAKE HE UNTO THEM...
14 Compare Isa_6:9-10, Septuagint. See Joh_12:37-40; Act_28:25-27; Rom_11:7-10; 2Co_3:14-16. 16-17 Compare Luk_10:23-24. See Mat_16:17. 18-23 Compare Mar_4:14-20; Luk_8:11-15. 19 Lack of understandi...
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...
LEAVEN] i.e. the influence of Christ, the power of Christianity. The figure is taken from the power of leaven ('yeast') to make the dough light and wholesome, and to spread through an enormous mass of...
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...
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN. — The parable sets forth the working of the Church of Christ on the world, but not in the same way as that of the Mustard Seed. There the growth was outward,...
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...
ὁμοία … ζύμῃ, like in respect of pervasive influence. In Rabbinical theology leaven was used as an emblem of evil desire (Weber, p. 221). Jesus had the courage to use it as an emblem of the best thing...
_The Mustard Seed and the Leaven_ (Luke 13:18-21 (both); Mark 4:30-32 (Mustard Seed)). A couplet of brief parables of brighter tone than the two already considered, predicting great extensive and inte...
OTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM Matthew 13:24-33 The tare was a species of rye grass, which in its earlier stages, closely resembled wheat. In this world, and in the Church, professors are closely ming...
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...
In three measures. Sata, the word here used, was a particular Hebrew measure, which corresponds not to any particular measure that we make use of, and therefore I have put measures, as it is in other...
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...
"Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." This parable, like the former, is...
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...
_THE POWER OF LEAVEN_ ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.’ Matthew 13:33 This parable relates to the marv...
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...
ANOTHER PARABLE SPAKE HE UNTO THEM,.... To the disciples and the multitude, and which was of the same kind, to the same purpose, and relating to the same subject as the former; the spread of the Gospe...
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Ver. 33. _The kingdom of heaven is l...
_Another parable spake he unto them_ With a view still further to illustrate the progress of the gospel in the world, and of true religion in the soul. _The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, whic...
LEAVEN; leaven is all-pervading and powerful. Though silent and hidden, it soon affects the whole mass. So would divine truth be, in its influence on individuals and on communities....
Parable of the leaven: ANOTHER PARABLE SPAKE HE UNTO THEM: THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN WHICH A WOMAN TOOK AND HID IN THREE MEASURES OF MEAL, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED. A very small pie...
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...
MEASURES: the word in the Greek is a measure containing about a peck and an half, wanting little more then a pint...
31-35 The scope of the parable of the seed sown, is to show that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but its latter end would greatly increase; in this way the work of grace in the heart, th...
Ver. 24-33. Here are three parables by the evangelist put together before he cometh to the explication which our Saviour giveth of the first; all of them concerning the gospel church, and the dispensa...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V And now, by the parable of the leaven, the Lord shows concealment; for He says, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measur...
Matthew 13:33 Another G243 parable G3850 spoke G2980 (G5656) them G846 kingdom G932 heaven G3772 is G2076 ...
‘He spoke another parable to them; “The kingly rule of heaven is like a situation where a woman took leaven, and hid it in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.” ' In this parable the hid...
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...
THREE FURTHER PARABLES OF THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (13:24-33). The parable of the Sower having been explained, We now have three further parables introduced, the parable of the tares (or bearded darn...
THE TWIN PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN (13:31-33). These two parables have very different emphases. The emphasis in the first case is on the size to which it grew from small beginnings,...
Matthew 13:33. LEAVEN. In those days a piece of the leavened loaf was put amongst the new dough to cause fermentation. This illustrates the power of pervading and assimilating foreign substances. The...
THE THREE OTHER PARABLES SPOKEN in public (Matthew 13:24-33), with the interpretation of the parable of the tares in private (Matthew 13:36-43). The Evangelist inserts, as is his habit, a prophecy ful...
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....
IS LIKE UNTO LEAVEN (ομοια εστιν ζυμη). In its pervasive power. Curiously enough some people deny that Jesus here likens the expanding power of the Kingdom of heaven to leaven, because, they say, le...
ANOTHER PARABLE That interpretation of the parable of the Leaven (Matthew 13:33) which makes (with variation as to details) the leaven to be the Gospel, introduced into the world ("three measures of...
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 13:33 In the mustard seed we saw the kingdom growing great by its inherent vitality; in the leaven we see it growing great by a contagious influence. There the increase was obtained by develop...
Matthew 13:31 The Kingdom of God. I. Look first at the external progress of the kingdom as illustrated by the growth of the mustard seed. It is ever important to remember that Christianity, at first...
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...
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...
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...
_The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven._ THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN I. The power which is to raise man must come from without. “Took leaven.” It is assumed that man needs raising, and this is pos...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 13:33 LEAVEN usually has a negative meaning in Scripture (compare Matthew 16:6;...
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....
THE PARABLE OF YEAST AND LEAVEN MATTHEW 13:33; LUKE 13:20-21; LUKE 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Matthew 1
1-57 CHAPTER 13 At that time, &c. Syriac, _by the sea shore_ : When Christ, after His manner, had preached in the house, which He had hired for His dwelling in Capernaum, as I have said on c. iv. 13,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:31. MUSTARD SEED.—It is disputed whether the allusion is to the _Sinapis_ or common mustard plant, or to the _Salvadora Persica_ of European botanists. Dean Plumptre sugges...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:24;...
Leaven [ζ υ μ η]. Wyc., sour dough, as German Sauerteig. From zew, to boil or seethe, as in fermentation. The English leaven is from the Latin levare, to raise, and appears in the French levain....
Three measures — This was the quantity which they usually baked at once: till the whole was leavened — Thus will the Gospel leaven the world and grace the Christian. Luke 13:20....