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Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Matthew 13:48 — KJV
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Matthew 13:48
King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
Matthew 13:48
Verse 48 of 58
Commentary
Commentary on Matthew 13:48
Theological / DevotionalDrew to shore. See on v. 47.
Gathered the good. The sorting process took place after the net had enclosed all the fish that could be caught in it. God measures character in terms of whether a man has lived in harmony with all the light that has shone upon his pathway, whether, to the best of his knowledge and ability, he has cooperated with heavenly agencies in perfecting a character patterned after the perfect example of Jesus (see on Eccl. 12:13, 14; Micah 6:8; Matt. 7:21-27).
Bad. Gr. sapros, applied to fish, “rotten,” or “putrid”; hence, “unfit for use.” The parable of the Dragnet emphasizes the eventual separation between “good” and “bad” on the basis of character.
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