mnt - Matthew:13:1-23

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."