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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.
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The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
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He told the crowd to sit down on the ground.
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When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.
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But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
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So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
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Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
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The Parable of the Growing Seed
He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
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He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so.
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Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.”
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So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
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Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him.
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Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
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But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
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Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture.
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Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.
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Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father.
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And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
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They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
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And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”
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In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
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Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
