LXX Psalm 77:2
Septuagint
1 Pay attention to my law, my people. Bend your ear to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables. I will voice riddles from the beginning. 3 How much we heard and knew. Also our fathers described them to us. 4 They were not hidden from their children for the next generation, reporting the praises of the Lord and his powerful acts and his wondrous things, which he did. 5 And he established a testimony in Jacob and a law. He put in place in Israel that which he commanded our fathers, to make him known to their children.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Matthew 13:35
New Testament
33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.” 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable. 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.” 36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel in the field.” 37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
Date: 70-90 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Breaking the feverish tension of the two previous chapters, with their condemnation and conflict, Matthew 13 provides at least temporary respite—a turn from polemics to didactics, from confrontation with the “brood of vipers” (12:34) “against” Jesus (12:30) to the veiled unveiling of parables that separate the crowds who, while blind, are not opposed to Jesus (13:2, 10, 13-15) and the disciples who, because they see, are “with” him (12:30). After the Parable of the Sower (13:1-9), Jesus answers the disciples’ question about why he speaks to the crowds in parables (13:10-17), explains the Sower (13:18-23), and tells three parables unified in theme (“spreading or growth”) and imagery (“farming, sowing, and its results”) (13:24-33). Before Jesus explains one of these (the Wheat and Weeds: 13:36-43), tells three more parables also unified in theme (“value or worth and discerning” it) and imagery (mercantile), and explains one of these (the Net of Fish: 13:50), the narrator divides the chapter, roughly in two, with a narrative summary (13:34) and an FC (13:35). The first part of the FC corresponds perfectly to Masoretic of Psalm 78:2 and LXX Psalm 77:2 ..."
Phillips, Zack Christopher
Filling Up the Word: The Fulfillment Citations in Matthew’s Gospel
(pp. 265-266) Duke University, 2017
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