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When moch people were gadred to gether and were come to him out of all cities he spake by a similitude.
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A sower went out to sowe his seede: and as he sowed some fell by the waye syde and it was troden vnder fete and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp.
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And some fell on ston and assone as it was spronge vp it widdred awaye because it lacked moystnes.
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And some fell amonge thornes and ye thornes spronge vp with it and choked it.
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And some fell on good grounde and sproge vp and bare frute an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges he cryed: He that hath eares to heare let him heare.
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And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this?
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And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.
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The similitude is this. The seede is ye worde of God.
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Thoose yt are besyde the waye are they that heare and afterwarde cometh ye devyll and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes lest they shuld beleve and be saved.
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They on the stonnes are they which when they heare receave the worde with ioye. But these have noo rootes which for a whyle beleve and in tyme of temtacio goo awaye.
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And yt which fell amonge thornes are they which heare and goo forth and are choked wt cares and wt riches and volupteous lyvinge and bringe forth noo frute.
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That in ye good grounde are they which with a good and pure hert heare the worde and kepe it and bringe forth frute with pacience.
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No man lyghteth a candell and covereth it vnder a vessell nether putteth it vnder ye table: but setteth it on a candelsticke that they that enter in maye se ye lyght.
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No thinge is in secret yt shall not come abroode: Nether eny thinge hyd that shall not be knowen and come to lyght.
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Take hede therfore how ye heare. For whosoever hath to him shalbe geve: And whosoever hath not fro him shalbe take even that same which he supposeth that he hath.
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Then came to him his mother and his brethren and coulde not come at him for prease.
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And they tolde him sayinge: Thy mother and thy brethren stonde with out and wolde se the.
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He answered and sayd vnto them: my mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God and do it.