Sunset Church

The second person is looking. He's probably a broker, just like our guy Roy in the story of the Sapphire. He's looking and trading in pearls. Pearls being some of the most valuable items in that time. And that's why you have this kind of language around finding a great pearl or pearls of great ways because pearls were noted in value and worth. He's a merchant to find pearls. He's probably some kind of treasure hunter in this second parable. He buys and sells and he buys and sells. He's a merchant. He's always on the lookout for a good deal so he could buy low and sell high. It's not uncommon in the ancient world for people to travel, to look for things. Merchants, traveling merchants. And he's traveling and he discovers an incredible, magnificent, once in a lifetime pearl.