Matthew 13:34

“The Lord, indeed, sowed good seed in His own field; and He says, “The field is the world.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 34. [Applicable to the origin of heresies.]

“For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world, the Fashioner of humanity, the Sower of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations?” — editor's note: Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.

“But here also I must first meet the same sophistry as advanced by those who contend that the Lord, like (the prophets), said everything in the way of allegory, because it is written: “All these things spake Jesus in parables, and without a parable spake He not unto them,” that is, to the Jews.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 34.

“And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying;” and so on, down to the words, “Therefore every scribe which is instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 1–52.

“Matt. XIII. 34, 35.” — the author cites it

“This, says he, is the kingdom of heaven that reposes within us as a treasure, as leaven hid in the three measures of meal.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 33, 34; Luke xvii. 21.

“The apostles accordingly say of the Lord, that “He spake all things in parables, and without a parable spake He nothing unto them;” and if “all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made,” consequently also prophecy and the law were by Him, and were spoken by Him in parables.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 34.

After the foregoing parables, that none might think that Christ was bringing forward any thing new, the Evangelist quotes the Prophet, foretelling even this His manner of preaching: Mark’s words are, “And with many…

The Greek word ‘Parable,’ is rendered in Latin ‘Similitude,’ by which truth is explained; and an image or representation of the reality is set forth.

Yet He spoke not in parables to the disciples, but to the multitude; and even to this day the multitude hears in parables; and therefore it is said, “And without a parable spake he not unto them.”

For though He had spoken many things not in parables, when not speaking before the multitudes, yet at this time spake He nothing without a parable.

Or, this is said, not in Matt that He uttered nothing in plain words but that He concluded no one discourse without introducing a parable in the course of it, though the chief part of the discourse might consist of…

This passage is taken from the seventy-seventh Psalm. I have seen copies which read, ‘by Esaias the Prophet,’ instead of what we have adopted, and what the common text has by the Prophet.

From which reading Porphyry took an objection to the believers; Such was your Evangelist’s ignorance, that he imputed to Isaiah what is indeed found in the Psalms.

But because the text was not found in Isaiah, his name was, I suppose, therefore erased by such as had observed that. But it seems to me that it was first written thus, ‘As was written by Asaph the Prophet, saying,’…

As though He had said, I who spoke before by the Prophets, now in My own person will open My mouth in parables, and will bring forth out of My secret store mysteries which have been hidden ever since the foundation…

Matthew 13:34 and Mark 4:34 share the same wording (9 words).

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in Against Heresies IV.40.

Cited together in Against Heresies IV.40.

Cited together in Against Heresies IV.40.

Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:34–35 (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in Against Heresies IV.40.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in Against Heresies IV.40.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.

Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 33.