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Matthew 13:47-54 Amplified Bible (AMP)

47. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was cast into the sea and gathered in fish of every sort.

48. When it was full, men dragged it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted out the good fish into baskets, but the worthless ones they threw away.

49. So it will be at the close and consummation of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God)

50. And cast them [the wicked] into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and wailing and grinding of teeth.

51. Have you understood all these things [parables] taken together? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.

52. He said to them, Therefore every teacher and interpreter of the Sacred Writings who has been instructed about and trained for the kingdom of heaven and has become a disciple is like a householder who brings forth out of his storehouse treasure that is new and [treasure that is] old [the fresh as well as the familiar].

53. When Jesus had finished these parables (these comparisons), He left there.

54. And coming to His own country [Nazareth], He taught in their synagogue so that they were amazed with bewildered wonder, and said, Where did this Man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?