013:015 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull
of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps
they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears,
understand with their heart, and should turn again;
and I would heal them.'{Isaiah 6:9-10}
013:016 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears,
for they hear.
013:017 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.
013:018 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
013:019 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.
013:020 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word,
and immediately with joy receives it;
013:021 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while.
When oppression or persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he stumbles.
013:022 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.
013:023 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word,
and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit,
and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty,
and some thirty."
013:024 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom
of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
013:025 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds{darnel
is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum)
that looks very much like wheat until it is mature,
when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat,
and went away.
013:026 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit,
then the darnel weeds appeared also.
013:027 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir,
didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this
darnel come from?'
013:028 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants
asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
013:029 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds,
you root up the wheat with them.
013:030 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."'"
013:031 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;
013:032 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown,
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