Matthew 13:47-50
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
God’s Kingdom Is Like a Net Catching Every Kind of Fish. The Bad Are Thrown Out
47 “Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a drag-net[a] having been cast into the sea and having gathered fish of every kind— 48 which, when it was filled, having pulled it up on the shore, and having sat-down, they collected the good ones into containers and threw the bad[b] ones outside. 49 So it will be at the conclusion of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the evil ones out of the midst of the righteous ones. 50 And they will throw them into the furnace of fire. In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth.
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- Matthew 13:47 That is, a large fishing net deployed from a boat.
- Matthew 13:48 good... bad. That is, the ‘fit’ to eat versus the ‘unusable’.
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