On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. Luk 8:4-10Mat 13:1-15Mrk 4:1-12Mat 13:36Mat 9:28Mrk 2:13 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. Luk 5:3Gen 49:10Luk 8:4-8Mat 15:30Mat 4:25Mrk 4:1 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. Mrk 4:2-9Mrk 4:13Psa 78:22Sa 12:1-7Ezk 24:3-14Mat 13:10-13Mat 13:34-35Mat 13:53 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. Mat 13:18-19 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. Ezk 36:26Ezk 11:19Zec 7:12Amo 6:12Mat 13:20 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. Jas 1:11-12Mat 13:21Luk 8:13Col 1:23Eph 3:17Isa 49:10Col 2:7Mat 7:26-27 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. Mrk 4:18-19Jer 4:3-4Gen 3:18Mat 13:22 Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. Jhn 15:8Luk 8:15Gen 26:12Mat 13:23Gal 5:22-23Php 1:11Rom 7:18 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mat 11:15Rev 2:11Rev 2:7Rev 2:17Mat 13:16Mrk 4:23Mrk 4:9Mrk 7:14-15
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” Mrk 4:33-34Mrk 4:10
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 1Co 2:9-101Co 2:14Mat 19:11Jas 1:51Jn 2:271Jn 2:20Col 1:26-27Eph 1:9 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. Mat 25:29Mrk 4:24-25Luk 8:18Luk 19:24-26Jhn 15:2-5Mat 21:43Rev 2:5Isa 5:4-7 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. Ezk 12:2Jer 5:21Isa 42:18-202Co 4:3-4Deu 29:3-4Jhn 3:19-20Mat 13:16Isa 44:18 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, Isa 6:9-10Ezk 12:22Co 3:14Luk 8:10Act 28:25-27Mrk 4:12Jhn 12:39-40Rom 11:8-10
‘By hearing you will hear,
and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive;
for this people’s heart has grown callous, Isa 6:10Mrk 4:12Zec 7:11Jhn 8:43-442Ti 2:25-26Isa 29:10-12Jer 17:14Mal 4:2
their ears are dull of hearing,
and they have closed their eyes;
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and would turn again,
and I would heal them.’ 1
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. Luk 10:23-24Eph 1:17-18Mat 16:17Jhn 20:29Act 26:182Co 4:6Luk 2:29-30Mat 5:3-11 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them. Jhn 8:56Heb 11:131Pe 1:10-12Luk 10:24Eph 3:5-6Heb 11:39-40
“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. Luk 8:11-15Mat 13:11-12Mrk 4:13-20 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. Luk 8:11-15Heb 2:1Mat 13:381Jn 5:18Mat 4:231Jn 3:12Pro 2:1-61Jn 2:13-14 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; Ezk 33:31-32Psa 106:12-13Jhn 5:352Ch 24:2Isa 58:2Psa 78:34-371Sa 11:13-152Ch 24:14 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. Mat 11:62Pe 1:8-9Eph 3:17Hos 6:4Jhn 15:5-7Job 19:28Pro 12:3Jhn 12:25-26 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 1Ti 6:17Luk 8:141Ti 6:9-10Mrk 4:18-19Luk 12:152Ti 4:10Ecc 5:10-111Jn 2:15-16 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.” Php 1:11Mat 12:33Jhn 15:16Gal 5:22-23Jhn 15:1-8Mat 13:8Psa 92:13-15Col 1:6
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, Mat 25:1Mat 13:47Mat 20:1Mat 22:2Mat 13:37Luk 13:20Luk 13:18Mat 13:33 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds 2 also among the wheat, and went away. 1Pe 5:82Pe 2:1Act 20:30-31Mat 13:39Heb 12:15Rev 12:9Mat 25:52Co 11:13-15 But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. Mrk 4:26-29 The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’ Rom 16:172Co 6:12Co 5:18-201Co 12:28-291Co 16:102Co 6:41Co 1:11-131Co 15:12-34
“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ 1Co 5:3-71Th 5:14Luk 9:49-542Co 2:6-11Jud 1:22-23
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’” Mat 3:121Ti 5:241Co 4:5Jhn 15:6Mal 3:18Mat 13:39-43Mat 25:32Luk 3:17
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, Luk 13:18-19Mat 17:20Mrk 4:30-32Luk 17:6Mat 13:24Luk 20:9Luk 19:11 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” Ezk 31:6Dan 4:12Ezk 17:23-24Act 21:20Dan 2:44-45Rom 15:18-19Zec 8:20-23Dan 2:34-35
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures 3 of meal, until it was all leavened.” Gal 5:91Co 5:6-7Luk 13:21Php 2:13-15Gen 18:6Pro 4:18Job 17:9Mat 13:24
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, Jhn 16:25Mrk 4:33-34Mat 13:13 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, Psa 78:2Eph 3:91Pe 1:20-21Rom 16:25-261Co 2:7Jhn 17:24Amo 3:7Col 1:25-26
“I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.” 4
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.” Jhn 16:17-20Mat 13:11Mat 13:1Mat 15:15-16Mat 9:28Mrk 6:45Mrk 7:17Mrk 8:9
He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 1Co 3:5-7Act 1:8Luk 10:16Mat 13:24Mat 13:27Mat 13:41Jhn 13:20Jhn 20:21 the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. Jhn 8:44Act 13:10Php 3:18-191Jn 3:8-101Pe 1:23Gen 3:15Jas 1:18Mat 13:19 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. Mat 13:49Rev 14:15-19Mat 25:31Jol 3:13Rev 19:202Th 1:7-10Mat 13:25Mat 24:3 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. Mat 13:39 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity, Mat 24:312Pe 2:1-2Mat 18:7Rev 21:27Heb 1:14Heb 1:6-7Mat 13:49Rev 5:11-12 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mat 13:50Luk 16:23-24Mat 8:12Rev 20:10Rev 20:14-15Rev 19:20Dan 3:6Mrk 9:43-49 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Dan 12:3Luk 12:321Co 15:41-54Mat 11:15Mat 25:34Rev 21:22-23Rev 21:3-5Jas 2:5
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Pro 2:2-5Col 2:3Php 3:7-9Mat 6:21Luk 14:33Heb 11:24-26Mat 19:29Pro 16:16
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, Pro 8:10-11Mat 16:26Pro 3:13-18Job 28:18Mat 13:24Pro 8:18-20Ecc 12:13Mat 22:5 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. Luk 18:28-30Eph 3:8Act 20:24Col 2:3Mat 13:44Pro 2:41Co 3:21-231Jn 5:11-12
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, Jhn 15:62Ti 3:2-5Mat 22:9-101Jn 4:1-62Ti 4:3-4Mrk 1:171Co 10:1-122Co 12:20-21 which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. Mat 13:30Mat 3:12Mat 13:40-43 So it will be in the end of the world. 5 The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous, Rev 20:12-15Mat 13:39Mat 24:312Th 1:7-10Mat 22:12-14Mat 25:19-33Mat 25:5-12 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Luk 13:27-28Rev 14:10-11Mat 13:42Mat 8:12Mat 24:50-51Rev 16:10-11 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” Mrk 4:34Mat 13:11Mat 13:191Jn 5:20Act 8:30-31Luk 9:44-45Mat 15:17Mat 16:11
They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.” 1Jn 2:7-8Tit 1:92Ti 3:16-172Co 3:4-6Mat 12:35Tit 2:6-71Ti 3:15-16Ezr 7:10
When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there. Mat 7:28Mrk 4:33-35 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Jhn 7:15-16Mat 7:28Mrk 6:1-6Luk 4:16-30Mat 2:23Mat 4:23Psa 22:22Act 13:46 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? 6 Jhn 6:42Mrk 6:3Luk 3:23Luk 4:22Mrk 15:47Gal 1:19Jhn 19:25Luk 24:10 Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?” They were offended by him. Jhn 4:44Luk 4:24Mat 11:6Isa 53:3Isa 49:7Jhn 6:611Co 1:23-28Act 7:51-52
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.” He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Mrk 6:5-6Rom 11:20Heb 3:12-19Luk 4:25-29Heb 4:6-11