I will utter (ερευξομα). To cast forth like a river, to gurgle, to disgorge, the passion of a prophet. From Ps 19:2; 78:2. The Psa…

That it might be fulfilled. This is taken from Psalm 78:2-3. The sense, and the very words of the Psalm, are given. Christ taught…

I will open my mouth in parables — This quotation illustrates Saint Matthew’s distinctive way of handling the prophetic l…

But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.…

St. John Chrysostom: After the preceding parables, so that no one would think that Christ was introducing anything new, the Ev…

Again Matthew introduces a fulfillment passage, quoting from Ps 78:2. In what sense can Jesus’ ministry in parables be said to be a fulfillment of …

That it might be fulfilled. Matthew does not mean that the psalm he quotes is a prediction that relates specifically to Christ. Instead, h…

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet ,
&c.] Not Isaiah, as some copies in the times of Jerom r…

The purpose of the parable of the seed sown is to show that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but its eventual outcome would be a great …

Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…