Matthew 13:1-11 ▼

1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side.

2 and there was so great a croud of people got about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a bark, where he sat, while the people all stood on the shore.

3 Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.

4 and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:

5 another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:

6 so that as the sun arose it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away.

7 another part fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked it.

8 but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.

9 he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10 And the disciples came, and said to him, why do you speak to them in parables?

11 to whom he answered, because you are allowed to know the mysteries of the gospel-dispensation, but to them it is not allowed.