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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Again he began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around him. So he got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn't have much soil, and it grew up quickly, since the soil wasn't deep. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn't produce fruit. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Still other seed fell on good ground and it grew up, producing fruit that increased thirty, sixty, and a hundred times." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then he said, "Let anyone who has ears to hear listen." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When he was alone, those around him with the Twelve, asked him about the parables. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He answered them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so that they may indeed look, and yet not perceive; they may indeed listen, and yet not understand; otherwise, they might turn back and be forgiven." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then he said to them: "Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The sower sows the word. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And others are like seed sown on rocky ground. When they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But they have no root; they are short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Others are like seed sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And those like seed sown on good ground hear the word, welcome it, and produce fruit thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it to be put on a lampstand? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured to you--and more will be added to you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"The kingdom of God is like this," he said. "A man scatters seed on the ground. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He sleeps and rises night and day; the seed sprouts and grows, although he doesn't know how. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The soil produces a crop by itself--first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31It's like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the garden plants, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He was speaking the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, he explained everything to his own disciples. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35On that day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross over to the other side of the sea." |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36So they left the crowd and took him along since he was in the boat. And other boats were with him. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37A great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher! Don't you care that we're going to die?" |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Silence! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41And they were terrified and asked one another, "Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!" |
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