Matthew 13:3-9
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3 And (A)he told them many things in parables, saying: (B)“A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 6 but (C)when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, (D)they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among (E)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some (F)a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 (G)He who has ears,[a] let him hear.”
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- Matthew 13:9 Some manuscripts add here and in verse 43 to hear
Matthew 13:24-30
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The Parable of the Weeds
24 He put another parable before them, saying, (A)“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds[a] among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants[b] of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he said, (B)‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, (C)“Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
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- Matthew 13:25 Probably darnel, a wheat-like weed
- Matthew 13:27 Or bondservants; also verse 28
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