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The New Testament: The Gospel According to St. Matthew: Chapter 13
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For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
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But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
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For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.
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Hear then ye the parable of the sower.
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When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, [then] cometh the evil [one], and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.
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And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;
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yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.
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And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
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And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
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but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
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But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
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And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares?
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And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
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But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.
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Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
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which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
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Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
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All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
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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.
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