mnt - Matthew:12-13

mnt@Matthew:12:1 @ At that time Jesus walked through the wheatfields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them.

mnt@Matthew:12:2 @ But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

mnt@Matthew:12:3 @ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

mnt@Matthew:12:4 @ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only?

mnt@Matthew:12:5 @ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

mnt@Matthew:12:6 @ "But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple.

mnt@Matthew:12:7 @ "And if you knew what this means, "It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice,

mnt@Matthew:12:8 @ "you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

mnt@Matthew:12:9 @ As he passed along he went into their synagogue, and there he saw a man with a withered hand.

mnt@Matthew:12:10 @ And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.)

mnt@Matthew:12:11 @ "Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day?

mnt@Matthew:12:12 @ "And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

mnt@Matthew:12:13 @ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

mnt@Matthew:12:14 @ The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

mnt@Matthew:12:15 @ So when Jesus knew it, he withdrew from that place, and numbers of people followed him.

mnt@Matthew:12:16 @ He cured them all; but he strictly forbade them to blaze abroad his doings,

mnt@Matthew:12:17 @ that the word spoken through Isaiah, the prophet, might be fulfilled.

mnt@Matthew:12:18 @ Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles

mnt@Matthew:12:19 @ He will not strive nor cry aloud, Nor shall anyone hear is voice in the streets

mnt@Matthew:12:20 @ The bruised reed will not break; The dimly burning wick will not quench; Till he has led justice on to victory.

mnt@Matthew:12:21 @ And in his name shall the Gentiles hope.

mnt@Matthew:12:22 @ Then they brought to him a blind and deaf demoniac; and he healed him, so that the dumb both spoke and saw.

mnt@Matthew:12:23 @ And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?"

mnt@Matthew:12:24 @ When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

mnt@Matthew:12:25 @ Because Jesus knew what was in their minds, he said to them. "Any kingdom divided against itself will become desolate; and any city or household divided against himself will not stand.

mnt@Matthew:12:26 @ "So if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

mnt@Matthew:12:27 @ "And if I am casting out demons in the power of Beelzebub, in whose power do your sons cast them out? So they themselves shall be your judges.

mnt@Matthew:12:28 @ "But if it is in the power of the Spirit of God is already upon you.

mnt@Matthew:12:29 @ "Or how can any one enter the strong mans house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

mnt@Matthew:12:30 @ "He who is not with me is against me; and he who is not gathering with me, scatters.

mnt@Matthew:12:31 @ "Therefore I tell you that every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven.

mnt@Matthew:12:32 @ "And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come.

mnt@Matthew:12:33 @ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.

mnt@Matthew:12:34 @ "You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

mnt@Matthew:12:35 @ "A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil.

mnt@Matthew:12:36 @ "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

mnt@Matthew:12:37 @ "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

mnt@Matthew:12:38 @ Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you."

mnt@Matthew:12:39 @ In reply Jesus told them. "An evil and faithless generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

mnt@Matthew:12:40 @ "For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea- monsters belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

mnt@Matthew:12:41 @ "The men of Nineveh will stand up in the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented under the preaching of Jonah, and lo! a greater than Jonah is here!

mnt@Matthew:12:42 @ "The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

mnt@Matthew:12:43 @ "Whenever an unclean spirit leaves a man, it wanders through waterless places, seeking rest but finding none.

mnt@Matthew:12:44 @ "Then it says, "I will go back to my house which I left;and on arrival finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

mnt@Matthew:12:45 @ "Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits worse than itself; and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be with this wicked generation."

mnt@Matthew:12:46 @ While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers were standing outside, desiring to speak to him.

mnt@Matthew:12:47 @ So some one told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, and wanting to speak to you."

mnt@Matthew:12:48 @ But he answered the man who told him, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?"

mnt@Matthew:12:49 @ And stretching his hand toward his disciples, he said,

mnt@Matthew:12:50 @ "Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

mnt@Matthew:13:1 @ On that same day, after Jesus had left the house, he took his seat on the seashore;

mnt@Matthew:13:2 @ and such a great crowd gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

mnt@Matthew:13:3 @ Then he told them many truths in parables. "Behold," he said, "the sower went forth to sow;

mnt@Matthew:13:4 @ and as he sowed, some seed fell by the roadside, and the birds came and ate it.

mnt@Matthew:13:5 @ Some fell on rocky ground where there was not much earth. Now because it had no depth of soil, it sprang up at once;

mnt@Matthew:13:6 @ but when the sun rose it was scorched, and withered away because it had no root.

mnt@Matthew:13:7 @ Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it.

mnt@Matthew:13:8 @ But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

mnt@Matthew:13:9 @ He who has ears, let him hear!"

mnt@Matthew:13:10 @ Now when his disciples came up to him, they said,

mnt@Matthew:13:11 @ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

mnt@Matthew:13:12 @ "For whoever holds, to him shall more be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever does not hold, from him shall be taken away even what he holds.

mnt@Matthew:13:13 @ "This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

mnt@Matthew:13:14 @ And in them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says. "Hearing you will hear and not understand; Seeing you will see and not perceive;

mnt@Matthew:13:15 @ For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

mnt@Matthew:13:16 @ "But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears because they hear.

mnt@Matthew:13:17 @ "In solemn truth I tell you that many prophets and holy men have seen it not, and to hear what you are hearing, and have not heard it.

mnt@Matthew:13:18 @ "Listen then, to the parable of the sower.

mnt@Matthew:13:19 @ "Whenever any one hears the message of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.

mnt@Matthew:13:20 @ "This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.

mnt@Matthew:13:21 @ "But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls.

mnt@Matthew:13:22 @ "And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

mnt@Matthew:13:23 @ "But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

mnt@Matthew:13:24 @ He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

mnt@Matthew:13:25 @ "but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat and went away.

mnt@Matthew:13:26 @ "And when the blade shot up and formed the wheat-kernel, then the tares also appeared.

mnt@Matthew:13:27 @ "The slaves of the owner went to him and said. "Was it not good seed, sir, that you sowed in your field? From whence then, do you get tares?

mnt@Matthew:13:28 @ "It is an enemy who has done this, he answered. "The slaves said to him, Do you want us to go and collect them?

mnt@Matthew:13:29 @ "No, he answered, for fear lest while you are collecting the tares, you at the same time pull up the wheat.

mnt@Matthew:13:30 @ "Let both grow together until harvest, and at harvest-time I will tell the reapers to first gather the tares and tie them in bundles for burning, but to bring all the wheat into my store-house."

mnt@Matthew:13:31 @ He set forth to them another parable, saying. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard-seed which a man took and planted in his field.

mnt@Matthew:13:32 @ "This is indeed the smallest of seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than any herb, and becomes a tree, so that the winged things of the sky come and roost in its branches."

mnt@Matthew:13:33 @ He told them another parable. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened."

mnt@Matthew:13:34 @ Jesus told all this to the crowd in parables; indeed he never spoke to them except in parables,

mnt@Matthew:13:35 @ in fulfilment of the word spoken by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world."

mnt@Matthew:13:36 @ After he had sent the people away and gone into the house, his disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field."

mnt@Matthew:13:37 @ "The sower of the seed," he answered, "is the Son of man;

mnt@Matthew:13:38 @ "the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.

mnt@Matthew:13:39 @ "The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.

mnt@Matthew:13:40 @ "Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

mnt@Matthew:13:41 @ "The son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all hindrances, and whoever practises iniquity,

mnt@Matthew:13:42 @ "and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

mnt@Matthew:13:43 @ "And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

mnt@Matthew:13:44 @ "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in the ground, which a man finds but buries again, and then in his joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that land.

mnt@Matthew:13:45 @ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of beautiful pearls.

mnt@Matthew:13:46 @ "When he finds one of great price, he goes and sells everything he has and buys it.

mnt@Matthew:13:47 @ "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

mnt@Matthew:13:48 @ "When it was full they hauled it upon the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets, but threw the worthless fish away.

mnt@Matthew:13:49 @ "So will it be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from the righteous, and fling them into the furnace of fire.

mnt@Matthew:13:50 @ "There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

mnt@Matthew:13:51 @ "Have you understood all this?" he asked. "We have," they answered him.

mnt@Matthew:13:52 @ "Then," said he, "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."

mnt@Matthew:13:53 @ After Jesus had finished these parables, he withdrew from that place,

mnt@Matthew:13:54 @ and came into his own country, where he continued teaching the people in their synagogues, until they were amazed. "Where did he get such wisdom?" they said, "and such wondrous powers?

mnt@Matthew:13:55 @ "Is not this the carpenters son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers Jamesand Joseph and Simon and Judas?

mnt@Matthew:13:56 @ "Are not his sisters all living among us? Where, then, did he get all these powers?"

mnt@Matthew:13:57 @ This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."

mnt@Matthew:13:58 @ And he did no mighty works there, because of their lack of faith.

mnt@Matthew:14:1 @ Just then Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of Jesus fame, and said to his courtiers.