Matthäus 13:36

36 Dann entließ er die Volksmengen und kam in das Haus; und seine Jünger traten zu ihm und sprachen: Deute uns das Gleichnis vom Unkraut des Ackers.

Matthäus 13:36 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus sent the multitude away
That his disciples might have the opportunity of conversing with him alone, about the sense of the parables he had delivered; and that he might instruct them by some others hereafter mentioned.

And went into the house:
left the ship in which he had been preaching to the multitude, came on shore, and returned to the house he came out of, ( Matthew 13:1 )

and his disciples came to him;
and being alone, make an humble request to him,

saying, declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field:
by which they mean, not a rehearsal of it, but an explication of the sense and meaning of it: they ask nothing about the parables of the mustard seed and leaven, either because they better understood them; or because there were some things very remarkable and striking in this, which made them very desirous to be particularly informed of the several parts of it, and their meaning.

Matthäus 13:36 In-Context

34 Dies alles redete Jesus in Gleichnissen zu den Volksmengen, und ohne Gleichnis redete er nicht zu ihnen,
35 damit erfüllt würde, was durch den Propheten geredet ist, welcher spricht: "Ich werde meinen Mund auftun in Gleichnissen; ich werde aussprechen, was von Grundlegung der Welt an verborgen war."
36 Dann entließ er die Volksmengen und kam in das Haus; und seine Jünger traten zu ihm und sprachen: Deute uns das Gleichnis vom Unkraut des Ackers.
37 Er aber antwortete und sprach: Der den guten Samen sät, ist der Sohn des Menschen,
38 der Acker aber ist die Welt; der gute Same aber, dies sind die Söhne des Reiches, das Unkraut aber sind die Söhne des Bösen;
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