⁴⁶ When he found a pearl more beautiful and valuable than any jewel he had ever seen, the jeweler sold all he had and bought that pearl, his pearl of great price.

⁴⁷ Or think of it this way: the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, a net that caught a world of flickering fish. ⁴⁸ When the net was full, the fishermen hauled it to shore. They separated the good fish from the bad, placing the good fish in a bucket and throwing out the inedible fish.