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Matthew 13:1-10
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The Parable of the Sower
1 On that day Jesus went out of the house [and] was sitting by the sea.
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And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore.
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And he spoke many [things] to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow,
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and while he was sowing, {some seed} fell on the side of the path, and the birds came [and] devoured it.
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And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have [any] depth of soil.
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But [when] the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have [enough] root, it withered.
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And other [seed] fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it.
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But other [seed] fell on the good soil and produced grain, this one a hundred [times as much] and this one sixty and this one thirty.
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The one who has ears, let him hear!"
The Reason for the Parables
10 And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"Related Articles
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- [a]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("went out") has been translated as a finite verb
- [b]. That is, the Sea of Galilee
- [c]. Literally "some of which"
- [d]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("came") has been translated as a finite verb
- [e]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("rose")
- [f]. Literally "fruit," describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like "grain" or "crop"
- [g]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("came up") has been translated as a finite verb
- [h]. Literally "because of what"
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