55But in the next breath they were cutting him down: "We''ve known him since he was a kid; he''s the carpenter''s son. We know his mother, Mary. We know his brothers James and Joseph, Simon and Judas.ab
Matthew 13 marks a decisive pivot in Jesus’s ministry. He moves from teaching the crowds in synagogues and on hillsides to speaking exclusively in parables — stories that simultaneously reveal and conceal. This chapter collects seven parables about the kingdom of heaven, each one
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