<p>13:35&nbsp;<em>This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet</em>- Again we see the Lord consciously trying to make the word flesh.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>I will open my mouth</em>&nbsp;<em>in parables-</em>&nbsp;Asaph in Psalm 78 seems to be saying that he was going to recount the history of Israel in order to reveal to his audience the hidden message of Israel's history; and he was not going to &quot;hide&quot; that message from them, but rather to 'declare' it and 'make it known': &quot;I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, declaring to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and His wondrous works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a teaching in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children&quot; (Ps. 78:1-5). And yet the Lord has been saying that He will teach in parables in order to hide, not declare and not make known God's Truth to the majority of Israel. But Psalm 78 says that He&nbsp;<em>will</em>&nbsp;declare these things. The point surely is that these truths were being declared, made known etc.&nbsp;<em>to the disciples</em>, but the very process would continue to hide them from Israel as a whole. The context of Ps. 78 is likely Asaph seeking to declare to Judah under Babylonian domination the meaning of their history and how Israel's history was to come to a climax and a full declaration of its meaning in Messiah. It therefore has relevance to the true Israel under Roman domination. Note that Ps. 78:2 is quoted here as it is in Jn. 6:31; Ps. 78 is alluded to at least 10 times in the N.T. The strongly uneven nature of quotation from the OT shows that some OT chapters were as it were proof texts for the early church; Ps. 110 is the clearest example.</p>
<p><em>I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world</em>- See on 13:33&nbsp;<em>hid</em>. Many of the Lord&rsquo;s parables portray the [preaching of] the Gospel of the Kingdom of God as a kind of secret force: treasure hidden in a field, the tiniest seed in the garden, wheat growing among weeds, a pinch of yeast worked into dough, salt on meat... these are all images of something which works from within, changing other people in an ongoing, regular manner.</p>