Matthew 13:52-54

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵²And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”^[a]

The Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth

⁵³And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, ⁵⁴and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?

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Footnotes

13.52 This is Matthew’s ideal: that the learned Jew should become the disciple of Jesus and so add the riches of the new covenant to those of the old, which he already possesses; cf. verse 12.

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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