This is the Baimah podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we try to learn from Jesus's puzzling explanation for the parable of the weeds.

Yeah, we kind of left that parable hang-in room in through it the first time. We used it to talk about parable mechanics, introduced all our listeners to Pardas. It was a good time, but we never really dealt with the parable.

It's self. It is kind of funny how it seemed to have stuck with the disciples. Like Jesus tells this parable. And then he goes on to talk about mustard seed and yeast that we talked about last episode.

And then they go in the house and the disciples are like, what can we talk about the weeds again for a second?

Yeah, I wonder if the seed and the yeast was like easy for them and they were like, oh yeah, it's Sarah and that's yeah, easy kill 17.

Or maybe they didn't even remember it. Maybe one one disciple was like, hey, do you guys remember this thing? And like they wrote it down later because they were told but in the moment like 11 out of 12 didn't even didn't even hear it.

It would be so good to know all the back details to all this stuff. I got some notes today if it sounds like I'm reading a little bit here and there. It's because I am.

But let's start Brent by let's jump back and just remember the parable first as Jesus told it. So give us the address and then read us the parable.

Matthew 13 starting in 24. Jesus told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servants came to him and said, sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from? An enemy did this he replied. The servants asked him, do you want us to go and pull them up? No, he answered because while you're pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

So just a reminder of the context of what's happening here. We have a whole chapter here almost essentially of parables that Jesus tells. Now there's a good chance that I mean, let me go through this. We got the parable of the soils followed by the weeds followed by the parable of mustard seed and then yeast.

Then Jesus is going to explain the weeds. He's going to talk about the parable of a treasure, the parable of a pearl. He's going to talk about fish that are caught in a net like all these parables.

There is a good chance that similar to what we talked about when we talked about the sermon on the Mount that all these parables were told in different places at different times and Matthew has decided to catalog them all together as one.

This time while I do believe that about the sermon on the Mount, I do not personally think that's what's happening here in Matthew 13 because these parables appear to be all tied together and told by Jesus on purpose.

No, I don't know if he told them as one big long conversation back to back to back to back to back or if maybe this was like his only teaching over the course of a whole day or what I don't know how it all worked, but I do believe that this is one conversation that Jesus is intentionally tying together.

He talks about the parable of the soils that kind of sets it up like he tells this parable and essentially says there's a cypals which soil are you like I want you to wonder about which soil you are because I'm about to really challenge people to think to dig to he who has ears let him hear.

And so I want you to know what kind of soil you are because I'm about to launch into a bunch of parables and then he goes into the weeds not goes into the weeds that goes into the parable up the weeds let me phrase that appropriately and so many puns there and and then he goes from there into like the parable the seed the mustard seed and the yeast and then it says they leave that place and again I feel like that was one I feel like this is the same day the same conversation.

He tells all these parables to the crowds tells to the disciples and the midst of the crowds and then they go and they step into a house and now the disciples pull Jesus aside and go okay okay hold on can you go back to the whole weeds thing and that's when he gives this explanation if you want to call out that.

So go ahead and read his explanation and bring us the address on that.

So this is starting in verse 36 and this does actually I was just kind of browsing through this so at the beginning of the chapter it says Jesus went out of the house sat by the lake the crowds gather around he starts talking about the soils.

I talked about the weeds and the mustard seed in the yeast and then at the beginning of the explanation of the weeds right there it says he left the crowd and went into the house is disciples told him.

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