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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
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A Deeper Kind of Fulfillment
Commentators explain that this is not a simple predictive prophecy. Instead, Jesus fulfills a divine pattern. Just as the prophet Asaph (in Psalm 78) used stories to reveal deeper truths from Israel's history, Jesus uses parables to reveal the long-hidden mysteries of God's kingdom. His very method of teaching was a fulfillment of Scripture.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 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…
19th Century
Anglican
I will open my mouth in parables — This quotation illustrates Saint Matthew’s distinctive way of handling the prophetic l…
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Baptist
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.…
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
That it might be fulfilled. Matthew does not mean that the psalm he quotes is a prediction that relates specifically to Christ. Instead, h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…
