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You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
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Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
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As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
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and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
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Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
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And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
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And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
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for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
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And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
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And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
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And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
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So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
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Paul's Visions and His Thorn
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
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But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
