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The Good News According to Matthew 13, World English Bible |
The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 13
{13:1} On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the
seaside. {13:2} Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered
into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. {13:3}
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer
went out to sow. {13:4} As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside,
and the birds came and devoured them. {13:5} Others fell on rocky
ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang
up, because they had no depth of earth. {13:6} When the sun had risen,
they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
{13:7} Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
{13:8} Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred
times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. {13:9} He who has ears to
hear, let him hear."
{13:10} The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to
them in parables?"
{13:11} He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries
of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. {13:12} For
whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but
whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he
has. {13:13} Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing
they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they
understand. {13:14} In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which
says,
'By hearing you will hear,
and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive:
{13:15} for this people's heart has grown callous,
their ears are dull of hearing,
they have closed their eyes;
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and should turn again;
and I would heal them.'[1]
{13:16} "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for
they hear. {13:17} For most certainly I tell you that many prophets
and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't
see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
{13:18} "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. {13:19} When anyone
hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one
comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This
is what was sown by the roadside. {13:20} What was sown on the rocky
places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy
receives it; {13:21} yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a
while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he stumbles. {13:22} What was sown among the thorns, this
is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the
deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
{13:23} What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the
word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings
forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
{13:24} He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, {13:25} but
while people slept, his enemy came and sowed [2>]darnel weeds[<2] also
among the wheat, and went away. {13:26} But when the blade sprang up
and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. {13:27}
The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you
sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
{13:28} "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.'
"The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
{13:29} "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the
darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. {13:30} Let both grow
together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the
reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles
to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
{13:31} He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in
his field; {13:32} which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it
is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that
the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."
{13:33} He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is
like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three [3>]measures[<3] of
meal, until it was all leavened."
{13:34} Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes;
and without a parable, he didn't speak to them, {13:35} that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
"I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."[4]
{13:36} Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the
house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable
of the darnel weeds of the field."
{13:37} He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of
Man, {13:38} the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the
children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the
evil one. {13:39} The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest
is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. {13:40} As
therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so
will it be at the end of this age. {13:41} The Son of Man will send
out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things
that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, {13:42} and will cast
them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing
of teeth. {13:43} Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in
the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
{13:44} "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in
the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells
all that he has, and buys that field.
{13:45} "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a
merchant seeking fine pearls, {13:46} who having found one pearl of
great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
{13:47} "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was
cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, {13:48}
which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down,
and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
{13:49} So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come
forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, {13:50} and
will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and
the gnashing of teeth." {13:51} Jesus said to them, "Have you
understood all these things?"
They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
{13:52} He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made
a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a
householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
{13:53} It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he
departed from there. {13:54} Coming into his own country, he taught
them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said,
"Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works? {13:55}
Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his
brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and [5>]Judas[<5]? {13:56} Aren't all
of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these
things?" {13:57} They were offended by him.
But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in
his own country, and in his own house." {13:58} He didn't do many
mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:15} Isaiah 6:9-10
[2] {13:25} darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium
temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when
the difference becomes very apparent.
[3] {13:33} literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit
more than a bushel
[4] {13:35} Psalm 78:2
[5] {13:55} or, Judah
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