Matthew 13:47
Good News Translation
"Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Some fishermen throw their net out in the lake and catch all kinds of fish.

New Revised Standard Version
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind;

Contemporary English Version
The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a net is thrown into a lake and catches all kinds of fish.

New American Bible
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes.

a net.

Matthew 4:19 And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.

Mark 1:17 And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Luke 5:10 And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

and gathered.

Matthew 13:26-30 And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. . . .

Matthew 22:9,10 Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage. . . .

Matthew 25:1-4 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. . . .

Luke 14:21-23 And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the poor and the feeble and the blind and the lame. . . .

John 15:2,6 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. . . .

Acts 5:1-10 But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a piece of land, . . .

Acts 8:18-22 And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, . . .

Acts 20:30 And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

1 Corinthians 5:1-6 It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:1-12 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15,26 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:20,21 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. . . .

Galatians 2:4 But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

2 Timothy 3:2-5 Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, . . .

2 Timothy 4:3,4 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: . . .

Titus 1:9-11 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers. . . .

2 Peter 2:1-3,13-22 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

1 John 2:18,19 Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour. . . .

1 John 4:1-6 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. . . .

Jude 1:4,5 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

Revelation 3:1,15-17 And to the angel of the church of Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy works, and that thou hast the name of being alive. And thou art dead. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Net
46Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it. 47Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. 48Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 47:10
And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

Matthew 13:44
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Matthew 13:46
Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Matthew 13:48
Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

Matthew 13:46
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