Treasure
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1,716 total views The “book of parables” (Mt 13) ends with three short parables, all exclusively Matthean. They are drawn from the everyday experience of three non-elite groups in Jesus’s world: farmers, merchants, and fishermen (vv44-50). Matthew concluded it with a logion appreciating the old (the law and the prophets) as well as the new (Jesus’