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Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.
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Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
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He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.
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For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."
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Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
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he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
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Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.
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But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."
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Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?
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It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
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yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow."