Matthew 13:48

| Matt 13 |

48 When it was full, d men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.

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Matt. 13:1–53 Mysteries of the Messianic Kingdom Revealed in Parables. This is the third of Jesus' five major discourses (see Introduction: Key Themes; Literary Features), called the Parabolic Discourse because of its collection of parables.

Matt. 13:36–53 Explanations and Parables Told to the Disciples. Jesus explains the parable of the wheat and weeds (vv. 36–43) and then gives the disciples the parables of the hidden treasure (v. 44), the costly pearl (vv. 45–46), the dragnet (vv. 47–48), and the householder's treasure (vv. 51–52).

Matt. 13:47–50 The net, shaped like a long wall, was dragged toward shore by both ends, trapping fish of every kind. sorted. Fish without scales and fins, e.g., were considered bad and unclean (cf. Lev. 11:9–12). Evil will not be totally removed from the world until the close of the age.