Summary
The lessons from the parable of the dragnet are as follows:
All are invited to the Kingdom of YHWH and all kinds of 'fish' enter the net (the church/synagogue).
But before anyone is permitted to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, there will be a time of sorting, evaluation
and judgment. 'Unclean fish' will be thrown out.
On that Day of Judgment (Great white throne), millions will realise that they are not only excluded from the
Kingdom of Heaven, but are consigned to the fires of Hell.
Every believer should ensure that he / she is living a holy life. Only then can they be sure of being sorted with
the clean fish – those who have been cleansed by living faith in the Y‘shua the Saviour, the Son of the living
Elohim.
13:51-52 The eighth parable
―(51) Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. (52) Then
said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old‖.
This last parable is a different type than the previous seven, in that it is directed to those who will understand
enough of the Kingdom in order to teach its truths to others. The reference to ―things new and old‖ may have
to do with having greater spiritual insight into the Scriptures that they already knew based on the insights
revealed to them through Y‘shua.
Note that this parable comes on the heels of Y‘shua asking His disciples if they understood everything to that
point:
―Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord‖. (Matt 13:51)
We will examine other parables and aspects of the Kingdom in the next section of this study.
13:53-54 And when he was come into his own country
―(53) And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. (54) And when
he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were
astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?‖ (Matt 13:53-54)
―And when he was come into his own country‖. Not where Y‘shua was born – Bethlehem. It was Nazareth,
where He was educated and where his parents and close relatives lived. He ―taught them in their
synagogue‖.
This is the boldness of Y‘shua. Not long ago they wanted to throw Him off a cliff (Luke 4:28-29); now He is
back again teaching amongst the scribes and rulers in their own synagogues. They were astonished by his
wisdom until...
13: 55 - 58 Is not this the carpenter's son?
―(55) Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and
Joses, and Simon, and Judas? (56) And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man
all these things? (57) And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without
honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. (58) And he did not many mighty works there
because of their unbelief‖. (Matt 13:53-58)
―Is not this the carpenter's son?‖ ―Meaning Joseph, who was by trade a carpenter, and whose son Y‘shua
was supposed to be; and who very probably was now dead, which may be the reason he is not mentioned
by name. The Greek word here used for ―carpenter‖ signifies any mechanic, or artificer. The Syriac
expresses it by a word, which signifies both a carpenter and a blacksmith; and Munster's Hebrew Gospel
renders it, ―the blacksmith's son". But the generally received notion of the ancient Christians is, that he was a
carpenter, and that Y‘shua was brought up to the same business, which lay in making ploughs and yokes‖.
(John Gill‘s Exposition of the entire Bible.)
Yoseph was a well-known and best – or perhaps the only carpenter in Nazareth. What the people of
Nazareth could not comprehend was how one with the origin and environment of Y‘shua‘s here in Nazareth
could possess the wisdom which he appeared to have in his teaching. That has often puzzled people – how