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- 1 He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.
- 2 And He was teaching them many things in parables and was saying to them in His teaching
- 3 "Listen to this! Behold the sower went out to sow;
- 4 as he was sowing some seed fell beside the road and the birds came and ate it up.
- 5 "Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
- 6 "And after the sun had risen it was scorched; and because it had no root it withered away.
- 7 "Other seed fell among the thorns and the thorns came up and choked it and it yielded no crop.
- 8 "Other seeds fell into the good soil and as they grew up and increased they yielded a crop and produced thirty sixty and a hundredfold."
- 9 And He was saying "He who has ears to hear let him hear."
- 10 As soon as He was alone His followers along with the twelve began asking Him about the parables.
- 11 And He was saying to them "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God but those who are outside get everything in parables
- 12 so that WHILE SEEING THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE AND WHILE HEARING THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN."
- 13 And He said to them "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?
- 14 "The sower sows the word.
- 15 "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
- 16 "In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places who when they hear the word immediately receive it with joy;
- 17 and they have no firm root in themselves but are only temporary; then when affliction or persecution arises because of the word immediately they fall away.
- 18 "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word
- 19 but the worries of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.
- 20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty sixty and a hundredfold."
- 21 And He was saying to them "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket is it or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
- 22 "For nothing is hidden except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret but that it would come to light.
- 23 "If anyone has ears to hear let him hear."
- 24 And He was saying to them "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
- 25 "For whoever has to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have even what he has shall be taken away from him."
- 26 And He was saying "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
- 27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day and the seed sprouts and grows--how he himself does not know.
- 28 "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade then the head then the mature grain in the head.
- 29 "But when the crop permits he immediately puts in the sickle because the harvest has come."
- 30 And He said "How shall we picture the kingdom of God or by what parable shall we present it?
- 31 "It is like a mustard seed which when sown upon the soil though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil
- 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."
- 33 With many such parables He was speaking the word to them so far as they were able to hear it;
- 34 and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.
- 35 On that day when evening came He said to them "Let us go over to the other side."
- 36 Leaving the crowd they took Him along with them in the boat just as He was; and other boats were with Him.
- 37 And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.
- 38 Jesus Himself was in the stern asleep on the cushion; and they woke Him and said to Him "Teacher do You not care that we are perishing?"
- 39 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea "Hush be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
- 40 And He said to them "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
- 41 They became very much afraid and said to one another "Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"