17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)One great design of Christ’s coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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