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⁸ And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

¹ Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth, ² in the hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised ages ago, ³ and revealed at the proper time in his message, through the preaching with which I have been intrusted at the command of God our Savior, ⁴ to Titus, my true child in our common faith; God our Father and Christ Jesus our Savior bless you and give you peace. ⁵ I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you— ⁶ men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience. ⁷ For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of holy life, self-controlled, ⁹ standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him. ¹⁰ For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision. ¹¹ They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain. ¹² It was a Cretan, a prophet of their own, who said, "Cretans are always liars, savage brutes, lazy gluttons," ¹³ and that statement is true. Therefore correct them rigorously, to make them have a healthy faith, ¹⁴ and not study Jewish fictions or commands given by men who reject the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

¹ Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him, ² and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness—Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means. ⁴ When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way, ⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up. ⁶ And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out. ⁸ And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!" ⁹ His disciples asked him what this figure meant. ¹⁰ And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand. ¹¹ This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message. ¹² The ones by the path are those who hear, and then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved. ¹³ The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back. ¹⁴ And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing. ¹⁵ But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly. ¹⁶ "Nobody lights a lamp and then covers it with a dish or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light. ¹⁸ So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away." ¹⁹ His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd. ²⁰ And the word came to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you." ²¹ He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!" ²² It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." ²³ So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril. ²⁴ And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm. ²⁵ And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and amazed, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For he gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey him!" ²⁶ They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee. ²⁷ And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!" ²⁹ For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert. ³⁰ And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him. ³¹ And they begged him not to order them off to the bottomless pit. ³² Now there was a large drove of pigs feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to give them leave to go into them. And he did so. ³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. ³⁴ When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around. ³⁵ And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened. ³⁶ And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured. ³⁷ Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said, ³⁹ "Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ When Jesus returned, the people welcomed him, for they were all watching for him. ⁴¹ And a man named Jairus came up—he was leader of the synagogue—and he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house, ⁴² because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him. ⁴³ And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure, ⁴⁴ came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once. ⁴⁵ Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you." ⁴⁶ But Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I know that power passed from me." ⁴⁷ When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace." ⁴⁹ Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more." ⁵⁰ But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well." ⁵¹ When he got to the house, he let no one go in with him but Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother. ⁵² And they were all wailing and beating their breasts for her. But he said, "Stop wailing! For she is not dead, she is asleep." ⁵³ And they laughed at him, for they knew that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But he grasped her hand and called out, "Get up, my child!" ⁵⁵ And her spirit returned and she stood up immediately, and he directed them to give her something to eat. ⁵⁶ And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

⁶ Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades, ²⁵ But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.

²⁰ He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

⁸ The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

³⁶ You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first; ³⁷ and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else; ³⁸ and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

³⁸ and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

¹ That same day Jesus went out of his house and was sitting on the seashore. ² And such great crowds gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat down in it, while all the people stood on the shore. ³ And he told them many things in figures, and said to them, "A sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up, ⁵ and some fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil and it sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep, ⁶ but when the sun came up it was scorched and withered up, because it had no root. ⁷ And some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out. ⁸ And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold. ⁹ Let him who has ears listen!" ¹⁰ His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?" ¹¹ He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not. ¹² For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴ They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see! ¹⁵ For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!' ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, for they do see, and your ears, for they do hear. ¹⁷ For I tell you, many prophets and upright men have longed to see what you see, and could not see it, and to hear what you hear, and could not hear it. ¹⁸ "You must listen closely then to the figure of the sower. ¹⁹ When anyone hears the teaching of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and robs him of the seed that has been sown in his mind. That is what was sown along the path. ²⁰ And what was sown upon the rocky soil means the man who hears the message and at once accepts it joyfully, ²¹ but it takes no real root in him, and lasts only a little while, and when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, he gives it up at once. ²² And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing. ²³ And what was sown in good ground means the man who listens to the message and understands it, and yields one a hundred, and another sixty, and another thirty-fold." ²⁴ Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while people were asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ And when the wheat came up and ripened, the weeds appeared too. ²⁷ And the owner's slaves came to him and said, 'Was not the seed good that you sowed in your field, sir? So where did these weeds come from?' ²⁸ He said to them, 'This is some enemy's doing.' And they said to him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' ²⁹ But he said, 'No, for in gathering up the weeds you may uproot the wheat. ³⁰ Let them both grow together until harvest time, and when we harvest I will direct the reapers to gather up the weeds first and tie them up in bundles to burn, but get the wheat into my barn.' " ³¹ Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. ³² It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants and grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches." ³³ Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen." ³⁴ Jesus said all this to the crowds in figures, and told them nothing except in figures, ³⁵ to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation." ³⁶ Then he left the crowds and went into his house. And his disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us the figure of the weeds in the field." ³⁷ He answered, "The sower who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸ The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned, this is what will happen at the close of the age; ⁴¹ the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and the wrongdoers ⁴² and throw them into the blazing furnace; there they will wail and grind their teeth. ⁴³ Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen! ⁴⁴ "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a hoard of money, buried in a field, which a man found, and buried again. And he was overjoyed, and went and sold everything he had and bought the field. ⁴⁵ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dealer in search of fine pearls. ⁴⁶ He found one costly pearl, and went and sold everything he had, and bought it. ⁴⁷ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was let down into the sea, and inclosed fish of all kinds. ⁴⁸ When it was full, they dragged it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets and threw the bad away. ⁴⁹ That is what will happen at the close of the age. The angels will go out and remove the wicked from among the upright, ⁵⁰ and throw them into the blazing furnace. There they will wail and grind their teeth. ⁵¹ "Do you understand all this?" They said to him, "Yes." ⁵² He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old." ⁵³ When Jesus had finished these figures, he left that place, ⁵⁴ and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders? ⁵⁵ Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And do not all his sisters live here among us? Then where did he get all this?" ⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and at his home." ⁵⁸ And he did not do many wonders there, because of their want of faith.