Matthew 25:2 Cross References

Matthew 25:2

2: Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

One basket was filled with fresh, ripe figs, while the other was filled with figs that were spoiled and could not be eaten.

The seed that fell on the hard path represents those who hear the Good News about the Kingdom and don't understand it. Then the evil one comes and snatches the seed away from their hearts.
The rocky soil represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy.
But like young plants in such soil, their roots don't go very deep. At first they get along fine, but they wilt as soon as they have problems or are persecuted because they believe the word.
The thorny ground represents those who hear and accept the Good News, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares of this life and the lure of wealth, so no crop is produced.
The good soil represents the hearts of those who truly accept God's message and produce a huge harvest--thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted."

These people left our churches because they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left us, it proved that they do not belong with us.

The field is the world, and the good seed represents the people of the Kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one.
The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the world, and the harvesters are the angels.
"Just as the weeds are separated out and burned, so it will be at the end of the world.
I, the Son of Man, will send my angels, and they will remove from my Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil,
and they will throw them into the furnace and burn them. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

"Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.
Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse, because it is built on rock.
But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.
When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash."

I don't want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, what happened to our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. God guided all of them by sending a cloud that moved along ahead of them, and he brought them all safely through the waters of the sea on dry ground.
As followers of Moses, they were all baptized in the cloud and the sea.
And all of them ate the same miraculous food,
and all of them drank the same miraculous water. For they all drank from the miraculous rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.
Yet after all this, God was not pleased with most of them, and he destroyed them in the wilderness.

"So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn't wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a fishing net that is thrown into the water and gathers fish of every kind.
When the net is full, they drag it up onto the shore, sit down, sort the good fish into crates, and throw the bad ones away.

"Who is a faithful, sensible servant, to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family?

I must remind you--and you know it well--that even though the Lord rescued the whole nation of Israel from Egypt, he later destroyed every one of those who did not remain faithful.

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