Discussion The Treasure Hidden in a Field?

GoldenKingGaze · Sep 17, 2021

I see a few different interpretations of Matthew 13:44-45 and wanted to explain my interpretation and compare mine with others.

Matthew 13
44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. 46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. From BSB.

I think the someone coming across a field is a soul, who is predestined to have life. He has wealth but finds the treasure as more valuable than anything else. The treasure is entirely clean. He as Jesus says, hates his life and loses it to obtain eternal life. He finds the Kingdom of God to receive. He denies himself and gives up his own life, his potential worldly wife or her potential worldly husband, and other traits in the world. Old secondary treasures. And repents, takes the kingdom, to heart, God's presence, and has a new life with new values, worship, and priority.

And the pearl of great price, to me was unclean, maybe a bone fragment from a fish's waste, that settles in an Oyster, and is coated in pearl until it is a gem. This is for someone who is unclean when they are offered to repent and receive the Kingdom presence of God into the heart.

Both treasure are God's presence taken at cost of the old life, to have the new and the hope of glory. In context with the other parables in Matthew 13 including the one with leaven being mixed into to dough. I think the dough is the heart and the leaven the Kingdom and or it's teaching. Remembering to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.

I remember John Wimber thought we the church are the pearl of great price God bought.

dqhall · Sep 17, 2021

GoldenKingGaze said:
I see a few different interpretations of Matthew 13:44-45 and wanted to explain my interpretation and compare mine with others.

Matthew 13
44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. 46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. From BSB.

I think the someone coming across a field is a soul, who is predestined to have life. He has wealth but finds the treasure as more valuable than anything else. The treasure is entirely clean. He as Jesus says, hates his life and loses it to obtain eternal life. He finds the Kingdom of God to receive. He denies himself and gives up his own life, his potential worldly wife or her potential worldly husband, and other traits in the world. Old secondary treasures. And repents, takes the kingdom, to heart, God's presence, and has a new life with new values, worship, and priority.

And the pearl of great price, to me was unclean, maybe a bone fragment from a fish's waste, that settles in an Oyster, and is coated in pearl until it is a gem. This is for someone who is unclean when they are offered to repent and receive the Kingdom presence of God into the heart. Both treasure are God's presence taken at cost of the old life, to have the new and the hope of glory.

The treasure in a field was on someone else’s land. The finder did not steal the treasure, but hid it in the field and then bought the field.

The pearl of great price was what pearl traders wanted. Cheap pearls are a dime a dozen, but the finest pearls are hard to find. Collectors paid higher prices for the higher quality. The most expensive diamonds are red diamonds, they may cost more than a million dollars a carat. A trader might like to try to acquire one of these more than a hundred cloudy, flawed, brown diamonds. A rare gem might appreciate in value. It is knowledge of markets that determines a trader’s success or failure. God is rich in knowledge of treasures.
Four Rare Fancy Red Diamonds from 910-carat diamond found in southern African kingdom

Citizen of the Kingdom · Sep 17, 2021

think Naboths field and Christ's jubilee

spiritfilledjm · Sep 17, 2021

Interesting take, and not a wrong take other. I like it. I think it is also worth it to note that the man in the field did not take the treasure, like he could have without witness, but instead did the righteous thing and sold all he had to buy the field that it was in. The Bible doesn't say what kind of field it was, just that it was a field. Was it a field that was worth anything? Was it used to grow anything? Or was it a field that was just that...a random field that was not in use for anything? We don't know for sure but I like to think it was the latter. By selling everything he had, he was able to give the owner a lot more than what the owner was probably willing to take for it. This truly serves as an illustration of different principles.

Halbhh · Sep 21, 2021

For those married to an unbeliever:

Some might wonder about someone already married to an unbeliever.

In the case of the already-married, when one spouse is worldly, we have the instruction in 1 Corinthians 7 NIV, verses 12-16 to help us understand what to do in that situation:
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

15But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. 16How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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Halbhh · Sep 21, 2021

GoldenKingGaze said:
I see a few different interpretations of Matthew 13:44-45 and wanted to explain my interpretation and compare mine with others.

Matthew 13
44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. 46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. From BSB.

I think the someone coming across a field is a soul, who is predestined to have life. He has wealth but finds the treasure as more valuable than anything else. The treasure is entirely clean. He as Jesus says, hates his life and loses it to obtain eternal life. He finds the Kingdom of God to receive. He denies himself and gives up his own life, his potential worldly wife or her potential worldly husband, and other traits in the world. Old secondary treasures. And repents, takes the kingdom, to heart, God's presence, and has a new life with new values, worship, and priority.

And the pearl of great price, to me was unclean, maybe a bone fragment from a fish's waste, that settles in an Oyster, and is coated in pearl until it is a gem. This is for someone who is unclean when they are offered to repent and receive the Kingdom presence of God into the heart.

Both treasure are God's presence taken at cost of the old life, to have the new and the hope of glory. In context with the other parables in Matthew 13 including the one with leaven being mixed into to dough. I think the dough is the heart and the leaven the Kingdom and or it's teaching. Remembering to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.

I remember John Wimber thought we the church are the pearl of great price God bought.

The pearl of great price is Christ and the gospel, the new way. When someone finds this, it's infinitely more valuable than all other things they have!

We 'sell all we have' -- in a key sense we give up all the worldly things we liked so that they stop being the things we most adore, to exchange for the only good thing. (we cannot serve 2 masters)

As you said it, "Both treasure are God's presence taken at cost of the old life,"

I like your way of explaining it.

I love these short parables about how the Kingdom of Heaven is, they are so sweet and helpful!

Hazelelponi · Sep 21, 2021

I think it sounds like your over complicating the uncomplicated.

What would anyone do if they found some treasure buried in a field that was for sale?

Perfectly natural to make sure the seller didn't find out about what you found and then do whatever you could to try and acquire that field legally - including selling all that you own to do so because the worth of what you found in that field is greater.

This and the pearl of great value are used as a general description of the worth of eternal life - which is our "treasure". It's so valuable that if we truly recognized it's worth, we would recognize that it's worth being treated as a second class citizen while living in this world, being seen as ignorant and putting up with everything mankind can throw at us to stand before God righteously on the Day of our Judgement.

There's a lot of people who don't get the true worth that is the Kingdom set before us, and what us standing righteously on that day will benefit. Many of that original audience as well as modern day hearers just don't get it. The ones who do are living it out.

lismore · Nov 9, 2021

GoldenKingGaze said:
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. From BSB.

Having the pearl was his priority. God and his Kingdom should be our priority.

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