with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came
from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
012:043 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man,
passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
012:044 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,'
and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept,
and put in order.
012:045 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits
more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there.
The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.
Even so will it be also to this evil generation."
012:046 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother
and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
012:047 One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers
stand outside, seeking to speak to you."
012:048 But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother?
Who are my brothers?"
012:049 He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said,
"Behold, my mother and my brothers!
012:050 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven,
he is my brother, and sister, and mother."
013:001 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
013:002 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat,
and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
013:003 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold,
a farmer went out to sow.
013:004 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds
came and devoured them.
013:005 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil,
and immediately they sprang up, because they had no
depth of earth.
013:006 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they
had no root, they withered away.
013:007 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
013:008 and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit:
some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
013:009 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
013:010 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak
to them in parables?"
013:011 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries
of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
013:012 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.
013:013 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see,
and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
013:014 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
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