Matthew 13:42-44
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
42 (A)They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. 43 [a](B)Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.
More Parables.[b] 44 (C)“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,[c] which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
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- 13:43 See Dn 12:3.
- 13:44–50 The first two of the last three parables of the discourse have the same point. The person who finds a buried treasure and the merchant who finds a pearl of great price sell all that they have to acquire these finds; similarly, the one who understands the supreme value of the kingdom gives up whatever he must to obtain it. The joy with which this is done is made explicit in the first parable, but it may be presumed in the second also. The concluding parable of the fishnet resembles the explanation of the parable of the weeds with its stress upon the final exclusion of evil persons from the kingdom.
- 13:44 In the unsettled conditions of Palestine in Jesus’ time, it was not unusual to guard valuables by burying them in the ground.
Matthew 13:42-44
New International Version
42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(A) 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun(B) in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.(C)
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like(D) treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.(E)
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