Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. Luk 5:1-3Mrk 2:13Luk 8:4-10Mat 13:1-15Mrk 3:7 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, Mat 13:34-35Mrk 3:23Mrk 4:11Mat 13:10Mat 13:3Psa 49:4Psa 78:2Jhn 7:16-17 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. 1Co 3:6-9Jas 2:5Jhn 4:35-38Deu 4:1Luk 8:5-8Mat 13:26Mrk 4:26-29Act 2:14 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds 1 came and devoured it. Mat 13:19Mrk 4:15Mat 13:4Luk 8:12Gen 15:11Luk 8:5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. Ezk 36:26Luk 8:6Amo 6:12Ezk 11:19Hos 10:12Luk 8:13Mat 13:20Mat 13:5-6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. Jas 1:11Jer 17:5-8Jon 4:82Th 2:10Col 2:7Eph 3:17Isa 25:4Jud 1:12 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. Jer 4:3Luk 8:141Jn 2:15-16Gen 3:17-181Ti 6:9-10Luk 12:15Luk 21:34Luk 8:7 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.” Jhn 15:5Col 1:6Gen 26:12Mrk 4:201Pe 2:1-3Act 17:11Jer 23:29Mat 13:8 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mat 11:15Mrk 4:23-24Rev 3:22Luk 8:18Mrk 7:14-15Rev 3:13Rev 3:6Mat 13:9
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. Mat 13:10-17Luk 8:9-15Mat 13:36Mrk 4:34Mrk 7:17Pro 13:20 He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, Mat 11:25Luk 8:101Co 5:12-131Jn 5:201Th 4:12Col 4:5Jas 1:16-181Ti 3:7 that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’” 2 Isa 6:9-10Isa 44:18Mat 13:14-15Jer 5:21Deu 29:4Jhn 12:37-41Luk 8:102Ti 2:25
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? Rev 3:191Co 3:1-2Heb 5:11-14Luk 24:25Luk 8:11-15Mat 13:18-23Mat 13:51-52Mat 15:15-17 The farmer sows the word. Act 8:4Mat 13:191Pe 1:23-25Luk 8:11Mat 13:37Mrk 2:2Mrk 4:3Col 1:5-6 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 1Pe 5:8Mat 13:192Co 2:112Co 4:3-4Luk 8:12Mrk 4:4Act 5:3Isa 53:1 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. Luk 8:13Mrk 6:20Ezk 33:31-32Jhn 5:35Mat 13:20-21Act 8:13Act 24:25-26Act 8:18-21 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. Mat 11:61Th 3:3-5Jhn 15:2-7Mat 12:31Rev 2:101Co 10:12-131Jn 2:192Ti 1:15 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, Jer 4:3Luk 8:14Mat 13:22Mrk 4:7 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 1Jn 2:15-171Ti 6:9-101Ti 6:171Pe 4:2-3Mat 19:23Php 4:6Jhn 15:2Luk 12:29-30 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.” Col 1:10Luk 8:15Jhn 15:4-5Mat 13:23Mrk 4:8Gal 5:22-232Pe 1:8Gen 26:12
He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket 3or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? Mat 5:15Luk 11:33Luk 8:16Isa 60:1-3Eph 5:3-151Co 12:7Php 2:15-16 For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light. Luk 8:17Ecc 12:141Co 4:5Mat 10:26-27Psa 78:2-4Act 20:27Act 4:20Luk 12:2-3 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mat 11:15Mrk 4:9Rev 2:29Rev 2:11Rev 2:17Rev 2:7
He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear. Heb 2:1Luk 8:18Mat 7:22Co 9:6Act 17:11Jhn 10:27Pro 19:27Luk 6:37-38 For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.” Mat 13:12Luk 8:18Mat 25:28-29Jhn 15:2Luk 16:9-12Luk 19:24-26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, Mat 13:241Co 3:6-91Pe 1:23-25Luk 8:11Isa 32:20Jas 3:18Luk 8:5Ecc 11:4 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. Ecc 11:52Th 1:31Co 15:37-38Ecc 8:172Pe 3:18Jhn 3:7-8 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. Php 1:9-11Hos 6:3Mrk 4:31-321Th 3:12-13Col 1:10Mat 13:26Php 1:6Ecc 3:1 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” Jol 3:13Isa 57:1-2Mat 13:30Mat 13:40-43Job 5:26Rev 14:13-172Ti 4:7-8
He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? Mat 13:31-32Luk 13:18-21Lam 2:13Mat 13:24Mat 11:16 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, Act 19:20Gen 22:17-18Luk 13:18-19Dan 2:44-45Mal 1:11Act 2:41Act 21:20Act 4:4 yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.” Dan 4:20-22Dan 4:10-14Ezk 31:3-10Psa 80:9-11Psa 91:1Isa 11:9Isa 32:2Lam 4:20
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. Mat 13:34-35Jhn 16:121Co 3:1-2Heb 5:11-14 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. Jhn 16:25Luk 24:27Mrk 4:10Mat 13:36-43Mat 15:15-20Luk 8:9-10Luk 24:44-46Mrk 7:17-23
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.” Mat 8:18Luk 8:25Luk 8:22Mat 8:23-27Mat 14:22Mrk 8:13Jhn 6:17Jhn 6:1 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. Mrk 3:9Mrk 4:1Mrk 5:2Mrk 5:21 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. Mat 8:23-24Job 1:19Luk 8:22-23Jon 1:4Psa 107:23-31Act 27:14-20Job 1:122Co 11:25 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?” 1Pe 5:7Heb 4:15Isa 54:6-8Mat 8:25Luk 8:24Isa 40:27-28Isa 51:9-101Ki 18:27-29
He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm. Psa 107:29Psa 89:9Psa 29:10Psa 65:7Jer 5:22Pro 8:29Job 38:11Exo 14:22 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?” Luk 8:25Mat 14:31Mat 8:26Isa 43:2Mat 16:8Mat 6:30Psa 46:1-3Jhn 6:19-20
They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” Luk 8:251Sa 12:18-20Job 38:111Sa 12:24Jon 1:15-16Jon 1:9-10Mat 8:27Psa 89:7