Matthew 13:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Field

The good

The children of the wicked

General references

Matthew 25:2

Bible References

Field

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

And I saw another angel fly in midheaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

The good

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

And I will sow her for myself in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them who were not my people, you are my people; and they shall say, you are my God.

I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they once increased.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, so that we may be also glorified together.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

The children of the wicked

When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the way side.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

General references

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.