Matthew 13:15-25

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

The Parable of the Weeds

24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Isaiah 6:9,10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26,27; Romans 11:8
  • 2. Matthew 16:17
  • 3. John 8:56; Hebrews 11:13; 1 Peter 1:10-12
  • 4. Matthew 4:23
  • 5. S Matthew 5:37
  • 6. Matthew 11:6; Matthew 26:31
  • 7. Matthew 19:23; 1Ti 6:9,10,17
  • 8. ver 8
  • 9. ver 31,33,45,47; Matthew 18:23; Matthew 20:1; Matthew 22:2; Matthew 25:1; Mark 4:26,30

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)
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