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The woman, that is the Synagogue, taking this leaven hides it, that is by the sentence of death; but it working in the three measures of meal, that is equally in the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospels, makes all one; so that what the Law ordains, that the Prophets announce, that is fulfilled in the developments of the Gospels.
The parable of the leaven (also called the parable of the yeast) is one of the shorter parables of Jesus. It appears in two of the canonical gospels of the New Testament and a version of the parable also occurs in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas (96). [22] The differences between Matthew (Matthew 13:33) and Luke (Luke 13:20–21) are minor.
The word translated "tares" in the King James Version is ζιζάνια (zizania), plural of ζιζάνιον (zizanion). This word is thought to mean darnel (Lolium temulentum), [2] [3] a ryegrass which looks much like wheat in its early stages of growth. [4] The Weymouth New Testament, a translation of the Greek, translates the word as "Darnel".
or "You and I see things differently" [13] whereas in the Weymouth New Testament, Jesus' words are "Leave the matter in my hands". [14] The Orthodox Jewish Bible highlights a connection with the narrative of the fall in Genesis 3:15: [15] [God] "will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring".
Frontispiece, Book of Revelation, Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura, 9th century The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1860 The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).
Arthur Pink explained that "The 'good' fish represent believers; their being 'gathered' speaks of association together—fellowship; while the 'vessels' tell of separation from the world." [4] First, the fishermen will separate believers (the good fish), and finally angels will take away non-believers to hell. [9]
Chapter 14 continues, without interruption, Jesus' dialogue with his disciples regarding his approaching departure from them. H. W. Watkins describes the chapter break as "unfortunate, as it breaks the close connection between these words and those which have gone immediately before ()", [4] although Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, identifies John 14 as the ...
John 15:12 quoted on a medal: "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." The chapter presents Jesus speaking in the first person. Although ostensibly addressing his disciples, most scholars [citation needed] conclude the chapter was written with events concerning the later church in mind.