Mat 13:10 (And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"
Mat 13:11 "Because," He replied, "while to you it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of the Heavens, to them it is not.
Mat 13:12 For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, from him even what he has shall be taken away.
Mat 13:13 I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.
Mat 13:14 And in regard to them the prophecy of Isaiah is receiving signal fulfilment: "'YOU WILL HEAR AND HEAR AND BY NO MEANS UNDERSTAND, AND YOU WILL LOOK AND LOOK AND BY NO MEANS SEE.
Mat 13:15 FOR THIS PEOPLE'S MIND IS STUPEFIED, THEIR HEARING HAS BECOME DULL, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; TO PREVENT THEIR EVER SEEING WITH THEIR EYES, OR HEARING WITH THEIR EARS, OR UNDERSTANDING WITH THEIR MINDS, AND TURNING BACK, SO THAT I MIGHT HEAL THEM.'
Mat 13:16 "But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
Mat 13:17 For I solemnly tell you that many Prophets and holy men have longed to see the sights you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the words you hear, and have not heard them.
Introduction
Christ, in these verses, gives a “reason” why he used this manner of instruction speaking in Parables. See also Mar_4:10-12; Luk_8:9-10.
Mat 13:10 (And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"
Notes
why speakest thou unto them in parables? not that this way of speaking was new and surprising to them; but because it was not easily understood, especially not by the common people, without an explanation, which, as yet, Christ had not given: and indeed the parable was not understood by the disciples themselves; who put this question, not only for the sake of the multitude, but for their own also, hoping to be favoured with the meaning of it. J.Gill
Mat 13:11 "Because," He replied, "while to you it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of the Heavens, to them it is not.
Notes
- granted to know the secrets [mysteries] of the Kingdom of the Heavens…..
The word “mystery,” in the Bible, properly means a thing that is “concealed,” or that “has been concealed.” It does not mean that the thing was “incomprehensible,” or even difficult to be understood.
The thing might be “plain” enough if revealed, but it means simply that it “had” not been before made known. Thus the “mysteries of the kingdom” do not mean any doctrines incomprehensible in themselves considered, but simply doctrines about the preaching of the gospel and the establishment of the new kingdom of the Messiah, which “had not” been understood, and which were as yet concealed from the great body of the Jews. See Rom_16:25; Rom_11:25; Eph_3:3-4,
Barnes Notes
Mat 13:12 For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, from him even what he has shall be taken away.WNT
Notes
For whosoever hath — that is, keeps; as a thing which he values.
to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance — He will be rewarded by an increase of what he so much prizes.
but whosoever hath not — who lets this go or lie unused, as a thing on which he sets no value.
from him shall be taken away even that he hath — or as it is in Luke (Luk_8:18), “what he seemeth to have,” or, thinketh he hath. This is a principle of immense importance, and, like other weighty sayings, appears to have been uttered by our Lord on more than one occasion, and in different connections. (See on Mat_25:9). As a great ethical principle, we see it in operation everywhere, under the general law of habit; in virtue of which moral principles become stronger by exercise, while by disuse, or the exercise of their contraries, they wax weaker, and at length expire. The same principle reigns in the intellectual world, and even in the animal - if not in the vegetable also - as the facts of physiology sufficiently prove. Here, however, it is viewed as a divine ordination, as a judicial retribution in continual operation under the divine administration.JFB
Mat 13:13 I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand. WNT
Mat 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not; nor do they understand. MKJV
Notes:
Therefore speak I to them in parables — which our Lord, be it observed, did not begin to do till His miracles were malignantly ascribed to Satan.
because they seeing, see not — They “saw,” for the light shone on them as never light shone before; but they “saw not,” for they closed their eyes.
and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand — They “heard,” for He taught them who “spake as never man spake”; but they “heard not,” for they took nothing in, apprehending not the soul-penetrating, life-giving words addressed to them. In Mark and Luke (Mar_4:12; Luk_8:10), what is here expressed as a human fact is represented as the fulfillment of a divine purpose - “that seeing they may see, and not perceive,” etc. The explanation of this lies in the statement of the foregoing verse - that, by a fixed law of the divine administration, the duty men voluntarily refuse to do, and in point of fact do not do, they at length become morally incapable of doing.JFB.
Mat 13:14 And in regard to them the prophecy of Isaiah is receiving signal fulfilment: "'YOU WILL HEAR AND HEAR AND BY NO MEANS UNDERSTAND, AND YOU WILL LOOK AND LOOK AND BY NO MEANS SEE.
Mat 13:15 FOR THIS PEOPLE'S MIND IS STUPEFIED, THEIR HEARING HAS BECOME DULL, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; TO PREVENT THEIR EVER SEEING WITH THEIR EYES, OR HEARING WITH THEIR EARS, OR UNDERSTANDING WITH THEIR MINDS, AND TURNING BACK, SO THAT I MIGHT HEAL THEM.'
Notes
See Isa 6:9 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.
Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.
By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, etc. — They were thus judicially sealed up under the darkness and obduracy which they deliberately preferred to the light and healing which Jesus brought nigh to them.
v.15 FOR THIS PEOPLE'S MIND IS STUPEFIED, THEIR HEARING HAS BECOME DULL, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; TO PREVENT THEIR EVER SEEING WITH THEIR EYES, OR HEARING WITH THEIR EARS, OR UNDERSTANDING WITH THEIR MINDS, AND TURNING BACK, SO THAT I MIGHT HEAL THEM.
Notes
FOR THIS PEOPLE'S MIND IS STUPEFIED, Waxed gross - Literally, “has become fat.” This language is commonly applied to “the body,” but is also used to denote one who is stupid and foolish in mind. Here it means that the people were so sensual and corrupt that they did not see or understand the pure spiritual principles of the gospel.
Lest they should see ... - Lest they should see their lost condition as sinners, and turn and live. The reason given here why they did not hear and understand the gospel is, that their “heart” was “wrong.” They “would” not attend to the things that belonged to their peace.
I should heal them - Should pardon, sanctify, and save them. Sin is often represented as a disease, and the pardon and recovery of the soul from sin as “healing.”
Mat 13:16 "But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
Notes
blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
The Disciples were blessed…...
that is, “Happy ye, whose eyes and ears, voluntarily and gladly opened, are drinking in the light divine.”
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