Matthew Chapter 13 verse 37 Holy Bible
And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
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And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;
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But he answering said, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man,
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He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
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He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
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And he answering said to them, `He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 37. - He answered and said unto them. In the following reply of our Lord (vers. 37-43) observe the change of style at ver. 40. Until then we have pithy, concise sentences all joined by the simple copula δέ, which can hardly be anything else than literal translations of the Lord's own phrases. But vers. 40-43 are in the usual style of this Gospel. The Son of man (Matthew 8:20, note).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(37) He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.--Primarily, we must remember that the parable refers to the kingdom of heaven--i.e., to that new order of things which the Christ came to establish, and which is conveniently described as the Church which owns Him as its Lord. It offers, accordingly, an explanation of the presence of evil in that Church, and only by inference and analogy does it bear upon the wider problem of the origin of the evil in the world at large. That analogy, however, is not likely to mislead us. If the Son of Man has been "the Light that lighteth every man" (John 1:9), then He had been a sower of the good seed in the wider region of the world from the beginning, and then also all who followed after righteousness had been children of the kingdom.
