Mark 4 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Once again He began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He got into the boat and sat down, out on the water, while the whole crowd was on the land, at the water’s edge. ² Then He began teaching them many things by parables and said to them in His teaching: ³ “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil. ⁶ But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up. ⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit. ⁸ And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.” ⁹ Then He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ¹⁰ But when He was alone, those who were around Him, with the twelve, asked Him about the parable. ¹¹ So He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, everything is being given in parables, ¹² so that: ‘Seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; so that they should not return and their sins be forgiven them’.” ¹³ Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? ¹⁴ The sower sows the Word. ¹⁵ These are the ones where the Word is sown along the path: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts. ¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy, ¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word, ¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.” ²¹ Also He said to them: “The lamp is not brought to be put under a box or under a bed, is it? Is it not to be placed on its stand? ²² For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light. ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” ²⁴ Then He said to them: “Pay attention to what you hear. With the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return; and to you who hear, more will be added. ²⁵ Because whoever has, to him more will be given; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.” ²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground ²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the earth produces fruit: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full grain in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” ³⁰ Again He said: “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or with what sort of parable should we illustrate it? ³¹ It is like a mustard seed, that when it is sown on the ground is the smallest of all such seeds, ³² yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden herbs and produces big branches, so that the birds of the air are able to rest in its shade.” ³³ It was with many such parables that He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴ But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples. ³⁵ On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us go across to the other side”. ³⁶ Since He was already in the boat, they took off with Him, leaving the crowd behind (other little boats were also with Him). ³⁷ Well a strong cyclonic wind came up, such that the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling up. ³⁸ But He was on the poop deck, sleeping on the cushion; so they awakened Him and said to Him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are perishing?” ³⁹ Then, having been awakened, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Shut up; be muzzled!” So the wind stopped and there was a complete calm. ⁴⁰ And He said to them: “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?” ⁴¹ They were terrified and started saying to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!?”

¹ On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. ² And large crowds were gathered together to Him, so He got into a boat to sit down; and the whole crowd stood on the shore. ³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: “Listen, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. ⁷ And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them. ⁸ But others fell on the good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ¹⁰ And the disciples approached and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you (ye) will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. ¹⁵ Because the \up6 a\up0 hearts of this people have grown dull, and their \up6 b\up0 ears hard of hearing, and their \up6 c\up0 eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their \up6 c\up0 eyes and hear with their \up6 b\up0 ears and understand with their \up6 a\up0 hearts, and turn around; and I would heal them.’

¹³ Then He went out again by the sea; and the whole crowd came to Him, and He began to teach them.

⁷ Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea; and a large crowd from Galilee followed Him—also from Judea,

¹ Now it happened, as He had come along the Lake of Genesaret, that the multitude crowded Him to hear the Word of God; ² He saw two boats standing by the lake (the fishermen were out of them, washing their nets). ³ So He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Sitting down He began to teach the crowds from the boat.

⁴ Now when a large crowd had gathered, with people coming to Him from town after town, He spoke by a parable: ⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it. ⁸ The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ⁹ Then His disciples asked Him saying, “What does this parable mean?” ¹⁰ So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand’.

²⁸ And so it was, when Jesus had ended these words, that the crowds were astonished at His teaching,

³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: “Listen, a sower went out to sow.

¹⁰ And the disciples approached and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable He did not speak to them, ³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet should be fulfilled, namely: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

²³ So summoning them He started saying to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

¹¹ So He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, everything is being given in parables,

³³ It was with many such parables that He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴ But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples.

³⁸ Then He said to them in His teaching: “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to get greetings in the market places,

¹⁶ So Jesus answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but His who sent me. ¹⁷ If anyone wants to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

¹⁹ Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.

²⁴ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

²⁶ But when the stalk sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

⁹ Then He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁴ The sower sows the Word.

²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground ²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the earth produces fruit: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full grain in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

¹⁴ Upon summoning the larger crowd He said to them: “Hear me, everyone, and understand: ¹⁵ There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him.

⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it. ⁸ The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

³⁵ Don’t you say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes’? Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already! ³⁶ Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this: ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

¹⁴ So Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and proclaimed to them: “Men—Jews and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem—let this be known to you; indeed, listen to my speech!

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are at one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away. ² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0,

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him?

⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.’

¹¹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who overcomes will absolutely not be harmed by the second death.’

²⁹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road.

¹⁵ These are the ones where the Word is sown along the path: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts.

⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.

¹² Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, in order that they not be saved, having believed.

⁵ Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy,

¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy, ¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away.

⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture.

¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away.

¹⁷ \up6 2)\up0 Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith, having been rooted and established in love

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its face perishes. Just so the rich man will be withered in his undertakings. ¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted);

¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat;

⁷ And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them.

²² But the seed sown among the thorns—this is he who hears the word, but the care of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless.

¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word, ¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it.

¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

¹⁵ Then He said to all, “Keep alert and guard against covetousness, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

⁹ But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires, that plunge people into ruin and loss; ¹⁰ because the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; in their greediness some have been led away from the faith and have impaled themselves on many distresses.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

⁸ But others fell on the good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

²³ Now the seed sown on the good ground—this is he who hears the word and understands, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

⁸ The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

¹² But, as many as did receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe into His name: ¹³ who were begotten, not by blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the will of a man, but by God .

¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant. ²⁰ For whoever practices evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light so that his deeds may not be exposed. ²¹ But whoever does the truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”

¹⁷ If anyone wants to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.

¹¹ Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all good-will, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things might be so.

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

¹ Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it. ² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed.

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ because a man’s anger does not achieve God’s righteousness. ²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. ²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.

¹ So then, laying aside all malignity —even all deceit and play-actings and envies, yes all malicious speaking— ² crave the pure spiritual ‘milk’, like newborn babies do, so that by it you may grow into salvation, ³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is benevolent.

¹⁵ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁰ Then summoning the crowd He said to them: “Hear and understand.

³ “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow.

²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” ²⁴ Then He said to them: “Pay attention to what you hear. With the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return; and to you who hear, more will be added.

¹⁸ So be careful how you hear: Because whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

⁶ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

¹³ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

²² ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’”

¹⁰ And the disciples approached and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you (ye) will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. ¹⁵ Because the \up6 a\up0 hearts of this people have grown dull, and their \up6 b\up0 ears hard of hearing, and their \up6 c\up0 eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their \up6 c\up0 eyes and hear with their \up6 b\up0 ears and understand with their \up6 a\up0 hearts, and turn around; and I would heal them.’ ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear; ¹⁷ for assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

³⁶ Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples approached Him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field”.

³⁴ But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples.

¹⁷ When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable.

⁹ Then His disciples asked Him saying, “What does this parable mean?” ¹⁰ So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand’. ¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God. ¹² Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, in order that they not be saved, having believed. ¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear;

¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁰ So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand’.

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.” ²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.” ²³ Then turning to His disciples privately He said: “Blessed are the eyes that are seeing the things that you see; ²⁴ for I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you are seeing but did not, and to hear what you are hearing but did not.”

⁷ Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

¹² Now just why should it be up to me to judge those who are outside? Won’t you judge those who are inside? ¹³ Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.

⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁹ having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him\up6 [S]\up0

⁴ But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) ⁶ and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved, through the faith —and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰ You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

⁵ Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

¹² so that outsiders may be well impressed by your life style, and that you may have no lack.

⁷ Also, it is necessary for him to have a good reputation with those who are outside the congregation, so as not to fall into reproach and the devil’s snare.

³ Because we ourselves were also foolish at one time, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior God and His love toward mankind manifested itself, ⁵ He saved us—not because of righteous deeds that we ourselves had done but according to His mercy, by means of the bath of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: ¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.

³⁷ Although He had performed so many signs in their presence, they were not believing into Him; ³⁸ so that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what we heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD really been revealed?” ³⁹ Therefore they were unable to believe, in that Isaiah said again: ⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and should turn around, and I would heal them.” ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory and spoke concerning Him.

¹⁹ Repent therefore, and turn around, so that your sins may be erased, in order that times of refreshing may come from the Lord’s face

²⁵ So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet, ²⁶ saying: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but never understand; you will keep on seeing, but never perceive”; ²⁷ because the heart of this people has become sluggish, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; in order that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor turn back, so I could heal them.’

⁸ Just as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that were not to see and ears that were not to hear, to this very day.” ⁹ And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.”

²⁵ correcting courteously those who oppose him, in hopes that God may grant them repentance leading to a real knowledge of Truth

⁶ and yet have fallen away—they would be crucifying the Son of God all over again, just for themselves, holding Him up to contempt.

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road. ²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy, ²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended. ²² But the seed sown among the thorns—this is he who hears the word, but the care of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless. ²³ Now the seed sown on the good ground—this is he who hears the word and understands, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

⁵¹ Jesus says to them, “Did you understand all these things?” They say to Him, “Yes, Lord”. ⁵² So He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who brings out of his reservoir things new and old.”

¹⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us”. ¹⁶ So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer?

⁸ But Jesus, being aware, said to them: “You little-faiths! Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you didn’t bring any bread? ⁹ Do you not yet perceive nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

¹⁷ When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable. ¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

²⁵ Then He said to them: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the Prophets have spoken!

¹ Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready,

¹¹ concerning whom we have much to say, but it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. ¹² Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God’s oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food! ¹³ Surely; whoever lives on milk is an infant, and therefore unskilled in the word of righteousness. ¹⁴ On the other hand, solid food is for the mature, those who by habitual use have trained their senses to distinguish good from bad.

¹⁹ As many as I love I rebuke and discipline; so be zealous and repent!

³⁷ So He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of the Man.

² Without delay so many were gathered together that there was no more room, not even around the door, and He was speaking the Word to them.

² just as those who became eyewitnesses, from the beginning, and ministers of the Word delivered them to us,

¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God.

⁴ So on their part those who were scattered abroad went about preaching the Word.

⁵ because of the hope that is being reserved for you in the heavens, of which you have already heard through the Word of the Truth ⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

²³ having been begotten again, not from a corruptible seed but an incorruptible, through the living Word of God that remains valid forever. ²⁴ For: “All flesh is as grass, and all man’s glory as flower of grass. The grass withers and its flower falls off, but the Lord’s word endures forever.” ²⁵ Now this is the good word that was proclaimed to you.

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him: “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written: ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve’.”

⁵ Now the indifferent ones just took off—one to his own field, another to his business.

⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ ¹⁹ Another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’

³ So Peter said: “Ananias, on what basis has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the price of the land?

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? ²⁰ Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”

³² Well when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some started scoffing, while others said, “We will hear you again about this”.

¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: “If there really was some misdeed or wicked crime, O Jews, there would be reason for me to bear with you; ¹⁵ but since it is an issue over a word and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; because I refuse to be a judge of such matters.” ¹⁶ And he drove them from the judgment seat. ¹⁷ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was a delay to Gallio.

¹⁹ but had certain issues against him about their religion, and about a certain dead Jesus whom Paul affirmed to be living. ²⁰ And since I was at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be judged there concerning these things.

³¹ and when they had withdrawn they started talking among themselves, saying, “This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains”. ³² And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free, if he had not appealed to Caesar”.

¹¹ so that we not be exploited by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his intentions.

³ So where our Gospel has actually been concealed, it has been hidden from those who are being wasted, ⁴ among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.

¹⁶ that no one be a fornicator, or worldly like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time.

⁷ Now when the thousand years are finished Satan will be released from his prison,

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet also are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

¹⁹ Then a certain scribe approaching said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go”. ²⁰ So Jesus says to him, “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of the Man does not have where He may lay His head”.

²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy, ²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended.

²⁰ because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a just and holy man. And consulting him he would do many things; indeed, he would hear him with pleasure.

¹⁷ As Jesus set out on the road, someone came running up, knelt before Him and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do that I may inherit eternal life?” ¹⁸ So Jesus said to Him: “Why do you call me ‘good’? No one is good except one—God. ¹⁹ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery’, ‘Do not murder’, ‘Do not steal’, ‘Do not give false testimony’, ‘Do not defraud’, ‘Honor your father and mother’.” ²⁰ In answer he said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these since I was young”. ²¹ Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him: “One thing you lack; go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, take up the cross, and follow me.” ²² But he was dismayed at the suggestion and went away sorrowing, because he had many possessions.

³⁵ That man was a burning, shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to be glad in his light.

¹³ Even Simon himself believed, and having been baptized he stayed right with Philip; observing miracles and signs occurring, he was amazed.

¹⁸ Well, upon observing that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the Apostles’ hands, Simon offered them money ¹⁹ saying, “Give this power to me also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive Holy Spirit.” ²⁰ But Peter said to him: “May your silver go with you into perdition, for thinking that the gift of God could be acquired with money! ²¹ You have neither part nor portion in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

²⁵ But as he expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and answered, “Go away for now; when I have occasion I will summon you”. ²⁶ At the same time he was also hoping that Paul would give him money, that he might release him; so he frequently summoned and conversed with him.

²⁸ So Agrippa said to Paul, “You will soon persuade me to become a Christian!”

⁶ And, blessed be whoever is not offended at Me!”

³¹ Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven people.

²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended.

⁹ “Then they will hand you over to oppression and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. ¹⁰ And then many will be offended, and they will betray one another and will hate one another.

⁵ Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil. ⁶ But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

¹⁰ Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it can be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit it will not be forgiven.

³¹ So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples;

² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up. ⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall! ¹³ No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.

¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh are pressuring you to be circumcised, but only so as not to be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

³ that no one be unsettled by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this. ⁴ For indeed, when we were with you we kept telling you in advance that we were going to be afflicted; just as it happened, in fact, as you know. ⁵ Yes, that’s why, no longer standing it, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had successfully tempted you and our labor come to be for nothing.

¹⁵ This you know, that all those in Asia have been turned away from me, including Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁷ and their word will spread like gangrene—among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have wandered away from the Truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

¹⁰ for Demas, loving this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica—Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one came to help me, but all deserted me. May it not be held against them.

²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us.

¹⁰ Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer: Take note, the devil is really about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have an affliction of ten days. Stay faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ ‘I know your works, and where you live, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold my name fast and did not deny my faith during the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit.

¹⁰ Indeed, already the ax is being laid to the root of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

²³ Then Jesus said to His disciples: “Assuredly I say to you that only with difficulty will a rich person enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

⁴¹ But in answer Jesus said to her: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and agitated about many things,

¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸ Then he said: ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’ ²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’ ²¹ Just like that is he who accumulates treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

²⁹ Do not concentrate on what you may eat or what you may drink; do not be anxious. ³⁰ All these things really occupy the nations of the world, and your Father knows that you need them.

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ ¹⁹ Another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ ²⁰ Yet another said, ‘I have married a wife, and so I can’t come’.

² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.

⁶ Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present world not to be haughty, nor to rely upon the uncertainty of riches but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

⁷ Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God; ⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God. ³ Because the time that has passed is plenty for you to have performed the will of the pagans—having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, carousings and disgusting idolatries—

⁸ Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

⁸ And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.

¹⁶ It wasn’t you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law.

¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

¹ Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: as you received from us how you ought to behave and please God, do so even more

¹⁵ Nor do they light a lamp and place it under the hamper, but on the lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house.

¹⁶ Upon saying these things He called out: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he sets it on a lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

³³ “No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in hiding or under a basket, but on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the common good.

³ But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints); ⁴ nor any obscenity, nor foolish talk or coarse joking (that do not belong), but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not be participants with them ⁸ —even though you were once darkness, you are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ approving what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ Do not associate with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose/reprove them. ¹² (It is shameful even to speak of those things being done by them in secret.) ¹³ Now all things, upon being exposed, are revealed by the light, for whatever reveals is light. ¹⁴ Therefore He says: “Wake up, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.” ¹⁵ See then that you walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

²⁶ So do not fear them; because there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be known. ²⁷ “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

¹⁷ Further, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor anything concealed that will not be made known and come into the open.

² There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. ³ Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the ear behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”

²⁷ because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts. At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God.

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have witnessed with our eyes, that which we contemplated and our hands handled with reference to the word of the Life ² —oh yes, the Life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and declare to you that eternal Life who was in the presence of the Father and was manifested to us— ³ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us; indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat from the hidden manna. And I will give him a white pebble, and on the pebble a new name written, which no one knows except the receiver.’

² Because with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

⁷ With that a cloud was covering them and a VOICE came out of the cloud: “This is my Son, the beloved. Listen to Him!”

³⁷ “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give and it will be given to you: a good measure—pressed down and shaken together and running over—will they deposit in your lap. Because with the same measure that you use it will be measured back to you.”

²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live.

¹⁶ I also have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

⁶ Now then, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

² crave the pure spiritual ‘milk’, like newborn babies do, so that by it you may grow into salvation,

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction). ² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed. ³ And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.

¹ Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

²⁸ Therefore, take the talent away from him and give it to the one having the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

⁹ “I even say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings! ¹⁰ He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. ¹¹ If therefore you have not been faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the genuine? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

²⁴ And to those standing by he said, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to him who has the ten minas’. ²⁵ (They even said to him, ‘Master, he already has ten minas!’) ²⁶ ‘Indeed I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

² and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near!”

¹⁷ From then on Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near.”

¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.

³¹ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;

³³ He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of the heavens is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.”

³ “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

¹⁴ The sower sows the Word. ¹⁵ These are the ones where the Word is sown along the path: as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts. ¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy, ¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word, ¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

¹⁸ Then He said: “What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?

²⁴ Most assuredly I say to you, if a grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, doesn’t die, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit.

¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those making peace.

⁷ Don’t be perplexed that I said to you, ‘You (pl) need to be begotten from above.’ ⁸ The wind blows where it wishes, and you (sg) hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who has been begotten by the Spirit.”

³⁷ And what you plant is a bare seed (perhaps of wheat or some one of the others); you do not plant the body that it will become. ³⁸ But God gives it a body just as He determined, to each of the seeds its own body.

³ We are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers, and properly so, because your faith is really growing, and the love of each and every one of you towards each other keeps increasing;

¹⁸ Rather, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and into the eternal day. Amen.

³¹ It is like a mustard seed, that when it is sown on the ground is the smallest of all such seeds, ³² yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden herbs and produces big branches, so that the birds of the air are able to rest in its shade.”

⁶ being certain of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment, ¹⁰ for you to identify the things that really matter; that you may be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward each other and toward all, just as we also do toward you, ¹³ so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His holy ones.

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn”’.”

⁴⁰ Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness; ⁴² and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of the righteousness is reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day; and not only to me, but also to all those who have longed for His appearing.

¹³ I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on’ (“Yes” says the Spirit) ‘so that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow along with them’.” ¹⁴ And wow, I saw a white cloud, and someone like a son of man sitting on the cloud, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple crying out with a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud, “Thrust in your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come because the harvest of the earth is dry.” ¹⁶ So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was harvested. ¹⁷ Then another angel came out of the temple (the one in heaven), he too having a sharp sickle.

¹⁶ “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in a marketplace and calling to their friends

³¹ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; ³² which indeed is smaller than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than all the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and rest in its branches.”

¹⁸ Then He said: “What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹ It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden; and it grew and became a sizable tree, and the birds of the air perched on its branches.” ²⁰ Again He said: “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? ²¹ It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

³¹ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; ³² which indeed is smaller than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than all the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and rest in its branches.” ³³ He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of the heavens is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.”

¹⁸ Then He said: “What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹ It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden; and it grew and became a sizable tree, and the birds of the air perched on its branches.”

⁴¹ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added.

⁴ (However, many of those who heard the message believed; the number of the men came to be about five thousand.)

¹⁴ Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

²⁰ With power like that it was that the word of the Lord kept growing and prevailing.

²⁰ But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

¹⁵ So the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”

¹ And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the Abyss and a huge chain on his hand. ² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time. ⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ (Now the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is the one having a part in the first resurrection; upon such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you but you can’t bear it now.

³⁶ Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples approached Him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field”. ³⁷ So He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of the Man. ³⁸ The field is the world; as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, while the tares are the sons of the malignant one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

¹⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us”. ¹⁶ So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer? ¹⁸ But the things coming out of the mouth actually come from the heart; those are the things that defile the man. ¹⁹ Because out of the heart proceed malignant thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things that defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

¹⁰ But when He was alone, those who were around Him, with the twelve, asked Him about the parable.

¹⁷ When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable. ¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him, ¹⁹ because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?” ²⁰ He went on to say: “That which comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness— ²³ all these malignant things proceed from within and defile the man.”

²⁷ And beginning from Moses, and then all the Prophets, He explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

⁴⁴ Then He said to them, “These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.” ⁴⁵ Then He opened their understanding so as to comprehend the Scriptures. ⁴⁶ And He said to them: “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

²⁵ “I have told you these things using figures of speech, but a time is coming when I will no longer talk to you with figures of speech; rather I will tell you plainly about the Father.

¹⁸ Seeing large crowds around Him Jesus gave an order to depart for the opposite shore.

²³ Now when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. ²⁴ And then—a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping. ²⁵ So the disciples came and awakened Him saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” ²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ²⁷ So the men marveled, saying, “What sort of being is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

²² Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.

²¹ Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to Him; and He was by the sea.

⁴⁵ Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

¹³ Turning His back on them, He got back into the boat and went off to the other side.

²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out.

²⁵ So He said to them, “Where is your faith?” But being terrified they marveled, saying to each other: “Who can this be? Because He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”

¹ After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

¹⁷ and getting into the boat they started to go across the sea toward Capernaum. Well it had been dark for a while and Jesus had not come to them.

²⁵ When they found Him on another side of the sea they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

⁹ So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the crowd, lest they should press in on Him.

¹ Once again He began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He got into the boat and sat down, out on the water, while the whole crowd was on the land, at the water’s edge.

² And when He got out of the boat, right away a man with an unclean spirit met Him, coming from the tombs

²³ Now when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. ²⁴ And then—a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping.

²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out. ²³ But as they sailed He fell asleep. A windstorm descended on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in jeopardy.

¹⁴ But not long after, a cyclonic wind blasted down from the land (it is called Euroclydon). ¹⁵ Well the ship was caught and could not head into the wind, so we gave up and were driven along. ¹⁶ Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we barely managed to secure the skiff; ¹⁷ when they had hoisted it aboard, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing that they might fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and so were driven along. ¹⁸ We were being so violently battered by the storm that the next day they began to jettison things, ¹⁹ and on the third we threw off the ship’s tackle with our own hands. ²⁰ When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a major storm was still pounding us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

⁴¹ But they fell into a place where two seas met and ran the vessel aground; the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the violence of the waves.

²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)—

²⁵ So the disciples came and awakened Him saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

²⁴ So they came and awakened Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He got up and rebuked the wind and the waves of water—and they stopped, and there was a calm!

⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, being worn out from the journey, sat as He was by the well. It was about 6 p.m.

¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

⁷ casting all your care upon Him, because He does the caring for you.

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again”.

³⁹ So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, you little-faiths?

²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

³¹ And immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him and says to him: “You little-faith! Why did you doubt?”

⁸ But Jesus, being aware, said to them: “You little-faiths! Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you didn’t bring any bread?

¹⁹ Then, after they had rowed some three or four miles, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat; and they were afraid. ²⁰ But He said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid!”

²⁷ So the men marveled, saying, “What sort of being is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

³² And when they got into the boat the wind ceased.

³³ So the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

³⁷ People were astonished beyond measure, saying: “He has done everything well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

³⁶ Everyone was taken with amazement and they started conversing together, saying: “What is this word! For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

⁴ Who could not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy, because all the nations will come and do obeisance before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested.”