Matthew 13:1-23 ▼

1 The same daye wet Iesus out of ye house and sat by the seesyde

2 and moch people resorted vnto him so gretly yt he wet and sat in a shippe and all the people stode on ye shoore.

3 And he spake many thynges to the in similitudes sayinge: Beholde ye sower wet forth to sowe.

4 And as he sowed some fell by ye wayessyde and the fowlles came and devoured it vp.

5 Some fell apo stony groude where it had not moche erth and a none it sproge vp because it had no depth of erth:

6 and when ye sunne was vp it cauht heet and for lake of rotynge wyddred awaye.

7 Some fell amoge thornes and the thornes sproge vp and chooked it.

8 Parte fell in good groud and brought forth good frute: some an hudred fold some sixtie fold some thyrty folde.

9 Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.

10 And the disciples came and sayde to him: Why speakest thou to the in parables?

11 He answered and sayde vnto them: it is geve vnto you to knowe ye secretes of the kyngdome of heve but to the it is not geve.

12 For whosoever hath to him shall be geven: and he shall have aboundance. But whosoever hath not: fro hym shalbe takyn awaye even that he hath.

13 Therfore speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se they se not: and hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde.

14 And in the is fulfilled ye Prophesie of Esayas which prophesie sayth: with the eares ye shall heare and shall not vnderstonde and with the eyes ye shall se and shall not perceave.

15 For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse and their eares were dull of herynge and their eyes have they closed lest they shulde se with their eyes and heare with their eares and shuld vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld tourne that I myght heale them.

16 But blessed are youre eyes for they se: and youre eares for they heare.

17 Verely I say vnto you that many Prophetes and perfaicte me have desired to se tho thinges which ye se and have not sene the: and to heare tho thinges which ye heare and have not herde the.

18 Heare ye therfore ye similitude of the sower.

19 Whosoever heareth the worde of ye kingdome and vnderstondeth it not ther cometh the evyll ma and catcheth awaye yt which was sowne in his hert. And this is he which was sowne by the wayesyde.

20 But he yt was sowne in ye stony groude is he which heareth the worde of God and anone wt ioye receaveth it

21 yet hath he no rottes in him selfe and therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde by and by he falleth.

22 He yt was sowne amoge thornes is he yt heareth ye worde of God: but the care of this worlde and the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke ye worde and so is he made vnfrutfull.

23 He which is sowne in ye good grounde is he yt heareth ye worde and vnderstodeth it which also bereth frute and bringeth forth some an.C. folde some sixtie folde and some .xxx. folde.