Matthew 13:44-46
The kingdom is treasure beyond all price, worth the joyful surrender of everything.
44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
The kingdom is treasure beyond all price, worth the joyful surrender of everything.
Matthew records Jesus teaching two brief kingdom parables that reveal the surpassing worth of the kingdom of heaven and the joyful total reorientation demanded when its value is truly perceived.
Jesus continues the Matthew 13 parables discourse with brief kingdom comparisons.
The Kingdom in Parables: Hearing, Hiddenness, Growth, Worth, and Judgment
The kingdom of heaven is revealed through the word, received by fruitful hearers, hidden from hardened hearts, growing amid opposition, worth everything, and moving toward final judgment under the authority of the Son of Man.