Matthieu 13:36

36 Alors Jésus, ayant renvoyé le peuple, s'en alla à la maison, et ses disciples, étant venus vers lui, lui dirent: Explique-nous la parabole de l'ivraie du champ.

Matthieu 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.

Matthieu 13:36 In-Context

34 Jésus dit toutes ces choses au peuple en similitudes, et il ne leur parlait point sans similitudes.
35 De sorte que ce qui avait été dit par le prophète en ces termes, fut accompli: J'ouvrirai ma bouche en similitudes; j'annoncerai des choses qui ont été cachées depuis la création du monde.
36 Alors Jésus, ayant renvoyé le peuple, s'en alla à la maison, et ses disciples, étant venus vers lui, lui dirent: Explique-nous la parabole de l'ivraie du champ.
37 Il répondit, et leur dit: Celui qui sème la bonne semence, c'est le Fils de l'homme;
38 Le champ, c'est le monde; la bonne semence, ce sont les enfants du royaume; l'ivraie, ce sont les enfants du Malin;
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.