The parables in today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 13:44-52) illustrate how the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that is so valuable that when found it brings immense joy to the point where one sells everything in order to have it; how the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl that when found all is sold in order to obtain it; How the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that when thrown into the sea it catches fish of every kind indicating that the Kingdom is full of saints and sinners in which God and the Angels will sort out in divine judgment.