Dispensational Truth

Christ is presented as the King, as the Son of David and of Abraham. The Evangelist Matthew presents the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to us as the One who was brought before His people Israel in responsibility to be accepted or rejected by them. The culminating point is in the 12th chapter, and the deliberate choice is made by those who professed to have their eyes opened. They attribute the works of God to the power of Beelzebub in loosing poor souls from the power of Satan. For this character of wickedness, for this blindness, there can be no forgiveness, either in that age or in the age to come.
We find therefore, the 13th chapter marking a new commencement and opening with the parable of the sower. He brings before His disciples what He is pleased to call the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, when the nation openly refuses to receive Him as their King. He brings before them things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world, and tells them what character the kingdom of heaven would assume.
Those beautiful parables—the treasure hid in the field and the merchantman seeking goodly pearls, occur in this 13th chapter of Matthew. In these parables, the Lord is alluding to the blessed truth on which He elaborates in Matt. 16. The previous chapters, from the 13th on, give us His progress in different parts of the Holy Land, until we find Him in the coasts of Tire and Sidon.