Matthew 13:1, 2

Feb 22, 2011 05:35 AM Cross refs v 2

<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-1.htm" >1</a>The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.

<a href="http://gill.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm" >Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a>

The time he went out of it, was the same day he had cast the devil out of the man blind and dumb, and had delivered himself so freely concerning the Scribes and Pharisees, who had blasphemously ascribed that miracle to the assistance of Satan; and the same day his mother and brethren came to see him, and speak to him.

And sat by the sea side; either as weary, and for his refreshment, or in order to preach to the people; for, Mark says, "he began again to teach by the sea side", <a href="brain://-GhA2CUw71Cs10wkL4wlTQ/" class="thought-link"> </a><a href="http://bible.cc/mark/4-1.htm" >Mark 4:1</a>. This was the sea of Galilee, sometimes called the sea of Tiberias.

<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-2.htm" >2</a>And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore

<a href="http://vws.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm" >Vincent's Word Studies</a>

Shore (αἰγιαλὸν)

Rev., beach, that over which the sea (ἅλς) rushes (ἀΐ́σσει). The word for shore, ἀκτή, on which the sea breaks (ἄγνυμι), is never used in the New Testament. Wyc., brink.

<a href="http://pnt.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm" >People's New Testament</a>

13:2 And great multitudes. Literally, greatest. There is every reason to believe that this was one of the greatest. It was the turning-point in his public teaching, since the parabolic instruction now begins.

<a href="http://mhc.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm" >Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a>

13:1-23 Jesus entered into a boat that he might be the less pressed, and be the better heard by the people. By this he teaches us in the outward circumstances of worship not to covet that which is stately, but to make the best of the conveniences God in his providence allots to us.