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Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn`t understand what he was telling them.
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A Spiritual Blindness
Commentators agree that the audience's failure to understand the shepherd analogy was not due to intellectual confusion but spiritual blindness. Their misunderstanding stemmed from pride, hard-heartedness, and prejudice against Jesus. As one scholar notes, this very failure to understand His words was evidence that they were not His true sheep.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This parable. See Barnes on Matthew 13:3.
They understood not, and so forth. They did not understand the meaning or design …
This parable (ταυτην την παροιμιαν). Old word for proverb from παρα (beside) and οιμος, way, a wayside saying or saying by the way…
19th Century
Anglican
This parable spake Jesus unto them.—Better, this allegory spoke Jesus to them. The word rendered "parable" is th…
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Baptist
This parable spake Jesus unto them but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
They thus proved that the…
A pen frequently held several flocks; and when the time came to go out in the morning pasture, each shepherd separated his sheep from the others by…
16th Century
Protestant
This parable. This is the reason why, proudly boasting of their wisdom, they rejected the light of Christ; for in a matter not very diffic…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This parable spoke Jesus to them To the Pharisees, who were with him, (John 9:40);
bu…
Many who hear the word of Christ do not understand it, because they will not. But we will find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Sp…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Evangelist explains why it was necessary to clarify the preceding parable, a necessity caused by the listeners’ failure to understand. He …
