WEB ▾Matthew ▾13 ▾Matthew 13:1-171On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.2Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.8Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”10The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.12For 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.13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.14In 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;15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’16“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.17For 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.Matthew 12Matthew 13Matthew 14