Matteo 13:36

36 Allora Gesù, lasciate le turbe, tornò a casa; e suoi discepoli gli s’accostarono, dicendo: Spiegaci la parabola delle zizzanie del campo.

Matteo 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.

Matteo 13:36 In-Context

34 Tutte queste cose disse Gesù in parabole alle turbe e senza parabola non diceva loro nulla,

35 affinché si adempisse quel ch’era stato detto per mezzo del profeta: Aprirò in parabole la mia bocca; esporrò cose occulte fin dalla fondazione del mondo.

36 Allora Gesù, lasciate le turbe, tornò a casa; e suoi discepoli gli s’accostarono, dicendo: Spiegaci la parabola delle zizzanie del campo.

37 Ed egli, rispondendo, disse loro: Colui che semina la buona semenza, è il Figliuol dell’uomo;

38 il campo è il mondo; la buona semenza sono i figliuoli del Regno; le zizzanie sono i figliuoli del maligno;