Gen 14: 18-20 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) He blessed Abram, saying,
“Blessed be Abram by the Most High God,
Creator of heaven and earth.
Worthy of praise is the Most High God,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Notes: Salem is traditionally identified as the Jebusite stronghold of old Jerusalem. Accordingly, there has been much speculation about its king. Though some have identified him with the preincarnate Christ or with Noah's son Shem, it is far more likely that Melchizedek was a Canaanite royal priest whom God used to renew the promise of the blessing to Abram, perhaps because Abram considered Melchizedek his spiritual superior. But Melchizedek remains an enigma. In a book filled with genealogical records he appears on the scene without a genealogy and then disappears from the narrative. In Psalm 110 the Lord declares that the Davidic king is a royal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek.
14:18 b tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause significantly identifies Melchizedek as a priest as well as a king. sn It is his royal priestly status that makes Melchizedek a type of Christ: He was identified with Jerusalem, superior to the ancestor of Israel, and both a king and a priest. Unlike the normal Canaanites, this man served "God Most High" (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן, 'el 'elyon) - one sovereign God, who was the creator of all the universe. Abram had in him a spiritual brother.
14:18 b tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause significantly identifies Melchizedek as a priest as well as a king. sn It is his royal priestly status that makes Melchizedek a type of Christ: He was identified with Jerusalem, superior to the ancestor of Israel, and both a king and a priest. Unlike the normal Canaanites, this man served "God Most High" (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן, 'el 'elyon) - one sovereign God, who was the creator of all the universe. Abram had in him a spiritual brother.
Matt 13:11 He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not....
The kingdom of heaven is like....
Matt 13:24,25 ...a person who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds
Matt 13:31 ...a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
Matt 13:33 ...yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
Matt 13:44 ...a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid.
Matt 13:45-46 ...a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.
Matt 13:47-48 ...a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.
Matt 13:24,25 ...a person who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds
Matt 13:31 ...a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
Matt 13:33 ...yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
Matt 13:44 ...a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid.
Matt 13:45-46 ...a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.
Matt 13:47-48 ...a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.
