Chapter
13
On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
Great multitudes gathered to her, so that she entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
She spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
As she sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
She who has ears to hear, let her hear."
The disciples came, and said to her, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
She answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
For whoever has, to her will be given, and she will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from her will be taken away even that which she has.
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
In them the prophecy of Isaia 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:
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.'
"But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous women 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.
"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
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 her heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
What was sown on the rocky places, this is she who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
yet she has no root in herelf, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately she stumbles.
What was sown among the thorns, this is she who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and she becomes unfruitful.
What was sown on the good ground, this is she 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."
She set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman who sowed good seed in her field,
but while people slept, her enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
The servants of the householder came and said to her, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
"She said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked her, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
"But she said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
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."'"
She set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a woman took, and sowed in her field;
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."
She spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a man took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, she didn't speak to them,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophetess, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. Her disciples came to her, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."
She answered them, "She who sows the good seed is the Daughter of Woman,
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.
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
The Daughter of Woman will send out her angels, and they will gather out of her Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Mother. She who has ears to hear, let her hear.
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a woman found, and hid. In her joy, she goes and sells all that she has, and buys that field.
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
who having found one pearl of great price, she went and sold all that she had, and bought it.
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
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.
So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered her, "Yes, Domina."
She said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman who is a householder, who brings out of her treasure new and old things."
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, she departed from there.
Coming into her own country, she taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this woman get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Isn't this the carpenter's daughter? Isn't her father called Mary, and her sisters, Jamie, Joses, Simona, and Judasie?
Aren't all of her brothers with us? Where then did this woman get all of these things?"
They were offended by her. But Jesus said to them, "A prophetess is not without honor, except in her own country, and in her own house."
She didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.