Why is the kingdom of God compared to a "pearl" in the " Parables of the Kingdom"?

Question

Why is it a pearl? Why not Gold, Silver, Gem, Sapphire, Ruby, and other jewels?

What makes the pearl different from all of these?

Pls. give me a sensible answer . I need the answer right away! Thank you so much! :)

Answer 1

Perhaps because of the process, effort and length of time it takes for a precious pearl to be formed.  In addition, in those times, the pearl was probably not the easiest thing to acquire.    (Not all pearls are valuable.)

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Answer 2

*shrug* They liked using pearls in the Bible. Like the verse about casting pearls before the swine.

Answer 3

I'm not to sure of the particular parable you are talking about but the Kingdom of Heaven is compared to many things in many parables for example, a field of wheat, but the pearl may represent the treasure hidden within the oyster and the rarity of finding them (the Kingdom) as they are not to be found in every oyster.

Peace

Answer 4

because a pearl is considered exceptionally precious

Answer 5

Because a pearl is hidden in a shell

And you have to open the shell through prayer

Ask and you shall receive

Seek and you shall find

Knock and the door will be opened before you

Once you receive Jesus in your heart

You find out that Jesus is the pearl

Jesus gives you something that no one else can

Eternal Salvation A feeling of peace and love in your heart

Answer 6

Things Which the “Kingdom of the Heavens” Is Like

“What is the kingdom of God like, and with what shall I compare it?”—Luke 13:18.

ILLUSTRATIONS or parables were a prominent part of the teaching method of Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ago. In this way he fulfilled a Bible prophecy. Of this we are assured in the life account of Jesus Christ as written by his apostle Matthew Levi. This biographer tells us:

2 “All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds by illustrations. Indeed, without an illustration he would not speak to them; that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet who said: ‘I will open my mouth with illustrations, I will publish things hidden since the founding [of the world].’”—Matt. 13:34, 35; Ps. 78:2.

3 Those illustrations or parables that specially bore on God’s Messianic kingdom might well be called Kingdom illustrations or parables. At times these were introduced with the words, “The kingdom of the heavens is like,” or, “With what are we to liken the kingdom of God?” or, “With what shall I compare the kingdom of God?”—Matt. 13:47; Mark 4:30; Luke 13:20.

4 Jesus is reported as giving thirty illustrations or parables. According to the thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus once gave a series of seven Kingdom illustrations in close connection with one another. First was the illustration of the sower, then that of the wheat and the weeds, the mustard grain, the leaven hid in the batch of dough, the treasure hid in the field, the pearl of high value and the dragnet. (Matt. 13:1-50) The Gospel writer Luke introduces the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven in a different way, and says:

5 “Well, when he said these things, all his opposers began to feel shame; but all the crowd began to rejoice at all the glorious things done by him. Therefore he went on to say: ‘What is the kingdom of God like, and with what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard grain that a man took and put in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of heaven took up lodging in its branches.’ And again he said: ‘With what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three large measures of flour until the whole mass was fermented.’”—Luke 13:17-21.

6 Because “all the crowd began to rejoice at all the glorious things done by him,” one would incline to think that Jesus reacted to the rejoicing of “all the crowd” by telling two prophetic illustrations to picture how God’s kingdom would not be made up of only a “little flock,” as Jesus had indicated earlier, in Luke 12:32. Instead, it would grow to great size and all the world of mankind would be like birds by their lodging in the refuge provided by the Kingdom. Also, that the great mass of mankind would become impregnated with the true teachings of Christianity. For instance, the Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Gospel of Matthew, by H. A. W. Meyer, Th.D., English edition of 1884, says on page 259, paragraph three:

The parable of the mustard seed is designed to show that the great community, consisting of those who are to participate in the Messianic kingdom, i.e., the true people of God as constituting the body politic of the future kingdom, is destined to develop from a small beginning into a vast multitude, and therefore to grow extensively; . . . “being a small flock, they were increased into a countless one.” The parable of the leaven, on the other hand, is intended to show how the specific influences of the Messiah’s kingdom (Eph. iv.4 ff.) gradually penetrate the whole of its future subjects, till by this means the entire mass is brought intensively into that spiritual condition which qualifies it for being admitted into the kingdom.

7 However, there is a fact that is here worth considering as significant. It is this: Right after recording those two parables of Jesus and telling how thereafter he went teaching from place to place, the Gospel writer Luke injects the question of a certain man: “Lord, are those who are being saved few?” Did Jesus’ answer seem to agree with that suggestion? Did it indicate a kingdom of a “little flock”?—Luke 13:22, 23.

8 Listen: “He said to them: ‘Exert yourselves vigorously to get in through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to get in but will not be able, when once the householder has got up and locked the door, and you start to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, “Sir, open to us.” But in answer he will say to you, “I do not know where you are from.” Then you will start saying, “We ate and drank in front of you, and you taught in our broad ways.” But he will speak and say to you, “I do not know where you are from. Get away from me, all you workers of unrighteousness!” There is where your weeping and the gnashing of your teeth will be, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.’” (Luke 13:23-28) So, as many as do g

Answer 7

Uhm, perhaps it's because pearls are the only gemstone created through biological means as opposed to geophysical?

Idk, rly.

What i do know is that we should be farming pearls like no tomorrow.