V.24-34 This parable is more general, more public. It is a view of the western world (Christendom). The true believers and those who only profess it all living in the same world. Of course, not that we are to mix with them. The Lord doesn’t take us immediately to heaven when He saves us. The day will come when He will separate the believers from the unbelievers (the mere professors) who then will be cast into hell (the oven), The tares (weeds) are the bad doctrine which is preached. Some do not like to be reminded that to go on with an organization which permits that which they know is contrary to God’s Word, is allowing Satan to plant these tares in their life. A farmer once said that for every food-bearing grain, there was a weed which looked like it. Let us all beware of bad teaching. Let us have the courage to separate from it to Christ our Center. These three parables have presented the kingdom of heaven in its outward form in the world. Everyone, whether truly saved or not, who says “I am a Christian”, is in this kingdom of heaven. It is profession.
V.44-50 These three are more inward — it is like a view which God the Spirit has of things as they are today. They were more for the disciples than for the multitude (v. 36).
V.44 The field is the world; the treasure is the believers; the man is Christ; selling all, giving Himself, spirit, soul and body. He buys it, and redeems the believers out of the world.
V.45-50 The pearl is the believers; the net is the word of the gospel; the sea is the restless world. What an end for the unbeliever, what a beginning (joy with Christ) for the believer!
V.52 Things new and old. The Jews knew the doctrine of the kingdom, but that the kingdom would go out to the whole world was new to them.
V.54-58 The leaders had no heart for Him and see Him only as the carpenter’s son!