These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Matthew 13
Brit Hadashah 58 verses
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That same day had left the house and was sitting on the shore of the Lake,
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when a vast multitude of people crowded round Him. He therefore went on board a boat and sat there, while all the people stood on the shore.
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He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. “The sower goes out,” He said, “to sow.
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As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.
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Some falls on rocky ground, where it has but scanty soil. It quickly shows itself above ground, because it has no depth of earth;
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- 6 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.
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Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.
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But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.
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- 9 Listen, every one who has ears!”
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(And His disciples came and asked Him, “Why do you speak to them in figurative language?”
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“Because,” He replied, “while to you it is granted to the secrets of the Kingdom of the Heavens, to them it is not.
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1 Corinthians 2:9-10 1 John 2:27 1 Corinthians 2:14 Matthew 19:11 Matthew 16:17 Romans 16:25 Luke 8:10 Colossians 1:26-27 1 Timothy 3:16 1 Corinthians 13:2 James 1:5 1 John 2:20 1 Corinthians 2:7 Ephesians 1:9 1 Corinthians 4:1 1 Timothy 3:9 Ephesians 5:32 Mark 4:11 James 1:16-18 Isaiah 35:8 1 Corinthians 15:51 Ephesians 1:18 John 6:65 Isaiah 29:10 Ephesians 6:19 Colossians 2:2 Acts 17:11-12 1 Corinthians 4:7 Luke 10:39-42 John 7:17 Acts 16:14 Ephesians 3:3-9 Psalm 25:14 Matthew 11:25-26 Psalm 25:8-9 - 12 For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, from him even what he has shall be taken away.
- 13 I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither nor understand.
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And in regard to them the prophecy of is receiving signal fulfilment: “’You will and and by no means understand, and you will look and look and by no means see.
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For this people’s mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.’
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“But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they .
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For I solemnly tell you that many Prophets and men have longed to see the sights you see, and have not seen them, and to the words you , and have not heard them.
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“To you then I will explain the parable of the Sower.
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When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has been sown in his . This is he who has received the seed by the road-side.
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Matthew 13:38 Luke 8:11-15 Matthew 4:23 Hebrews 2:1 John 18:38 1 John 3:12 Romans 2:8 Mark 4:15 Proverbs 17:16 Proverbs 18:1-2 1 John 5:18 Proverbs 1:20-22 2 Thessalonians 2:12 Romans 14:17 Acts 24:25-26 2 Corinthians 4:2-3 Proverbs 2:1-6 John 3:19-20 Acts 20:25 Acts 17:32 Proverbs 1:7 Luke 9:2 Luke 10:9 Acts 26:31-32 Matthew 5:37 Acts 18:15 1 John 2:13-14 Romans 1:28 Acts 25:19-20 John 8:43 Acts 28:23 1 John 5:20 Ephesians 3:8 - 20 He who has received the seed on the rocky ground is the man who hears the Message and immediately receives it with joy.
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It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.
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Matthew 11:6 Hosea 6:4 2 Timothy 1:15 Acts 8:21-23 Matthew 13:6 Matthew 24:9-10 2 Timothy 4:10 Galatians 6:12 Proverbs 12:12 2 Peter 1:8-9 Matthew 16:24-26 Revelation 2:13 Matthew 10:37-39 Luke 8:13 Matthew 13:57 Mark 4:17 Job 19:28 John 15:5-7 Matthew 10:22 Matthew 24:13 Matthew 26:33 Philippians 1:6 Mark 13:12-13 1 John 2:19-20 Galatians 6:15 Matthew 7:26-27 John 6:26 Galatians 5:6 Luke 14:26-33 Psalm 36:3 Proverbs 12:3 Matthew 5:10-12 John 6:70-71 Luke 21:12-18 Romans 2:7 John 6:61-65 1 Peter 1:5 Hebrews 10:35-39 Matthew 7:22-23 Mark 8:34-36 Ephesians 3:17 John 12:25-26 Luke 9:23-25 Job 27:8-10 Matthew 26:31 -
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He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
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But he who has received the seed on good ground is he who hears and understands. Such hearers give a return, and yield one a hundred for one, another sixty, another thirty.”)
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Another parable He put before them. “The Kingdom of the Heavens,” He said, “may be compared to a man who has sown good seed in his field,
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- 25 but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.
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But when the blade shoots up and the grain is formed, then appears the darnel also.
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- 27 “So the farmer’s men come and ask him, “’Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed on your land? Where then does the darnel come from?’
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“’Some enemy has done this,’ he said. “’Shall we go, and collect it?’ the men inquire.
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- 29 “’No,’ he replied, ‘for that while collecting the darnel you should at the same time root up the wheat with it.
- 30 Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.’”
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Another parable He put before them. “The Kingdom of the Heavens,” He said, “is like a mustard-seed, which a man takes and sows in his ground.
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- 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches.”
- 33 Another parable He spoke to them. “The Kingdom of the Heavens,” He said, “is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen.”
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All this spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,
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in fulfilment of the saying of the Prophet, “I will open my mouth in figurative language, I will utter things kept hidden since the creation of all things.”
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When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field.”
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- 37 “The sower of the good seed,” He replied, “is the Son of Man;
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the field is the world; the good seed—these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.
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The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
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As then the darnel is collected together and burnt up with fire, so will it be at the Close of the Age.
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- 41 The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;
- 42 and these they will throw into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.
- 43 Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in their Father’s Kingdom. Listen, every one who has ears!
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“The Kingdom of the Heavens is like treasure buried in the open country, which a man finds, but buries again, and, in his joy about it, goes and sells all he has and buys that piece of ground.
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Colossians 2:3 Proverbs 2:2-5 Proverbs 16:16 Hebrews 11:24-26 Luke 14:33 Philippians 3:7-9 Proverbs 23:23 Isaiah 55:1 Colossians 3:3-4 Matthew 6:21 Romans 15:4 Revelation 3:18 Proverbs 17:16 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 Hebrews 10:34 Luke 18:23-24 Acts 2:44-47 Acts 4:32-35 John 6:35 Matthew 19:21 Matthew 13:24 Matthew 19:29 Matthew 19:27 Luke 19:6-8 Proverbs 18:1 - 45 “Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a jewel merchant who is in quest of choice pearls.
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“Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.
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When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
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- 49 So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
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and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.”
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- 51 “Have you understood all this?” He asked. “Yes,” they said.
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“Therefore,” He said, “ that every Scribe well trained for the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old.”
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Proverbs 15:7 Matthew 12:35 1 John 2:7-8 Proverbs 18:4 Titus 1:9 Matthew 23:34 Titus 2:6-7 1 Timothy 3:15-16 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Ezra 7:10 Proverbs 16:20-24 Colossians 1:7 2 Corinthians 3:4-6 2 Corinthians 4:5-7 Proverbs 10:20-21 Ezra 7:6 Proverbs 22:17-18 John 13:34 Ephesians 3:4 Ecclesiastes 12:9-11 Colossians 3:16 Ephesians 3:8 Luke 11:49 Ezra 7:21 Song of Solomon 7:13 1 Timothy 3:6 Proverbs 11:30 2 Corinthians 6:10 -
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concluded this series of parables and then departed.
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- 54 And He came into His own country and proceeded to teach in their , so that they were filled with astonishment and exclaimed, “Where did he obtain such wisdom, and these wondrous powers?
- 55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called ? And are not his brothers, , , Simon and ?
- 56 And his sisters—are they not all living here among us? Where then did he get all this?”
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And He performed but few mighty deeds there because of their want of .
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