Matthew 13:3 Cross References - DouayRheims

³ And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

⁸ The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. ⁹ And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us. ¹¹ And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? ¹² And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us. ¹³ And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees? ¹⁴ And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us. ¹⁵ And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus. ¹⁶ Now, therefore, if you have done well, and without sin, in appointing Abimelech king over you, and have dealt well with Jerobaal, and with his house, and have made a suitable return for the benefits of him who fought for you, ¹⁷ And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hand of Madian, ¹⁸ And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because he is your brother: ¹⁹ If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault, with Jerobaal and his house, rejoice ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he rejoice in you. ²⁰ But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech.

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. ² The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen. ³ But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. ⁴ And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. ⁵ And David's anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a child of death. ⁶ He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity. ⁷ And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul,

^{4 (49:5)} I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

¹ I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. ² And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. ³ And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes? ⁵ And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. ⁶ And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. ⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

² Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

⁴⁹ And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

³ And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it. ⁴ Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones. ⁵ Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of it. ⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it. ⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust. ⁸ And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take my vengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock, that it should not be covered. ⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of which I will make a great bonfire. ¹⁰ Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed. ¹¹ Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed. ¹² Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire. ¹³ Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee. ¹⁴ I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.

⁴ In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

¹⁰ And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. ¹² For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he hath. ¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. ³⁵ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

⁵³ And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he passed from thence.

¹ And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

³² And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

²³ And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?

² And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine: ³ Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow. ⁴ And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up. ⁵ And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth. ⁶ And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷ And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. ⁸ And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred. ⁹ And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹³ And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables?

³³ And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

¹ And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.

¹² And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.

⁵ The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it. ⁶ And other some fell upon a rock. And as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And other some fell among thorns. And the thorns growing up with it, choked it. ⁸ And other some fell upon good ground and, being sprung up, yielded fruit a hundredfold. Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁰ To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see and hearing may not understand.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

³ And he spoke to them this parable, saying: ⁴ What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after that which was lost, until he find it? ⁵ And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing? ⁶ And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? ⁷ I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.