Focused Passage
The Kingdom in Parables: Hearing, Hiddenness, Growth, Worth, and Judgment
Matthew moves from public parabolic teaching beside the lake, to private explanation with the disciples, to more kingdom parables, to fulfillment of hidden speech, to further private explanation, to parables of kingdom worth and final judgment, to the disciples’ responsibility as trained scribes, and finally to hometown rejection.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
47Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
48When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away.
49So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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