Matthew 8:12 v. 13:38?

[The Librarian]

Dear Librarian,

What's the difference between matthew 8:12 and 13:38?

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12 whereas the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown into the darkness outside. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be.”+ 

 - Matthew 8:12

 

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38 the field is the world.+ As for the fine seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom, but the weeds are the sons of the wicked one,+ 

- Matthew 13:38

 

[AnonymousBrother]

Mat 8:12 refers to the fleshly Israelites--once upon a time, God's Kingdom. The door was being closed to them because they were not placing faith in Jesus, while a Roman centurion was. Jesus was sounding the warning that the Gentiles were coming!

13:38 refers to Spiritual Israel, whose seeds Jesus was planting.

[John Houston]

Great answer! Once Jesus performed that healing, he used that occasion to confirm that non-Jews of faith will be favored with blessings, saying, "Many from the east and west will come and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens." What about faithless Jews? Jesus says that they "will be thrown into the darkness outside. There is where their weeping and gnashing of their teeth will be." Hence, natural Jews who did not accept the opportunity offered first to them to be part of the kingdom with Christ would be rejected. But Gentiles would be welcomed to recline at his table, as it were, "in the kingdom of the heavens."