NOTES. Three-year Bible reading plan.

NOTES for Mat 13:24-43

God Himself refuses to carry out a "cleanup" in the world He created. This means that for Him people are not divided into "honest ordinary citizens" and "terrorists." Although some people strongly resemble bandits and violent offenders, the "weeds of society" (or of the Church, or of the family), the Lord is in no hurry to weed the field. And this is despite the fact that He, of all people, knows what each person is capable of in this life. He waits until each person can reveal himself, without abandoning hope for anyone's repentance.

What, then, can be said about us, for whom another person's soul is darkness? What right do we have to divide the world into good and bad people? And no one has appointed us as harvesters...