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\subsection{\Matthew 13}
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Sower}
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\VS{1} In that day when \Iesous went out of the city he sat by the sea,
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\VS{2} and [a] great crowd gathered by him, so that having embarked he sat in [a] boat, and all the crowd stood on the shore.
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\VS{3} And he said to them many [things] in
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parables saying:
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Behold the sower went out to be sowing.
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\VS{4} And among what he sowed some
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on the one hand fell by the road, and when the birds came they ate it.
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\VS{5} On the other hand [some] fell on the rocky soil where it did not have much
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earth\fnGe{}, and immediately it sprang up because of not having depth of earth\fnGe{};
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\VS{6} so when the sun rose it was scorched, and because of not having root
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it was withered.
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\VS{7} On the other hand [some] fell among the thistles, and the
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thistles came up and choked it.
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\VS{8} On the other hand some fell on the good
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soil\fnGe{}, and was giving fruit, on the one hand hundredfold, on the other
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sixtyfold, [and] on the other thirtyfold.
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\VS{9} The [one having] ears to be
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hearing\footnote{``ears to be hearing": C \koine D most; ``ears" \sinaiticus{} B},
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let\fnImperative{} him be hearing.
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\VS{10} And when his disciples came they said to him: Why do you speak in
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parables to them?
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\VS{11} But when he answered he said: To you it is given
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to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those it is not
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given.
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\VS{12} For whoever has, it shall be given to him, and will be more
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than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from
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him.
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\VS{13} I speak to them in parables because of this: Because looking
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they do not look, and hearing they do not hear not
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understand\footnote{``because looking they do not look, and hearing they do
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not hear and understand" \sinaiticus{} B \koine W most; ``in order that looking they
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may not look, and hearing they may not hear not understand" D many}.
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\VS{14} And the prophesy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them which said\footnote{Isa.6:9-10}:
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\begin{verse}
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Hearing they will hear and will \negd{not} understand \\
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And looking they will look, and will \negd{not} see. \\
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\VS{15} For the heart of this people has grown fat\footnote{or ``thick''}
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\\
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An with their ears they heard with disgust, \\
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And their eyes they have closed Lest they see with their eyes \\
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And understand with their hearts and turn back \\
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And I heal them.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{16} But blessed are your eyes because they look, and [your] ears because they
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hear.
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\VS{17} For truly I say to you that many prophets and just men lusted
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to see what you look at and they did not see, and to hear and they did not
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hear.
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\VS{18} Therefore hear the parable of the sower.
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\VS{19} When anyone hears
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the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the wicked\fnPoneros{} [one] comes and
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carries off what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the road.
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\VS{20} And what was sown on the rocky soil, this is the one hearing the
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word and immediately receives it with joy,
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\VS{21} but it has no root in
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him, but is transitory, so when trouble or persecution comes to pass because
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of the word, immediately he stumbles.
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\VS{22} And what was sown in the
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thistles, this is the one hearing the word, and the concerns of
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the\footnote{``the'' \sinaiticus{}BD; ``this'' \koine\ most} age and the guile of riches
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chokes the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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\VS{23} But what was sown on the
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good soil\fnGe{}, this is the [one] hearing the word and understanding, who indeed bears
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fruit and produces on the one hand [a] hundredfold, on the other sixty fold,
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[and] on the other thirty fold.
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Weeds}
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\VS{24} Another parable he placed before them saying: The kingdom of the
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heavens is like [a] man sowing good seed in his field.
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\VS{25} But while the
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man sleeps his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and left.
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\VS{26} So when the grass sprouted and bore fruit, then the tares also became
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manifest.
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\VS{27} So when the slaves of the householder came they said to
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him: Lord, did we not sow good seed in the field? Whence therefore does it
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have tares?
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\VS{28} But he told them, [An] enemy did this. So the slaves say:
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Do you wish therefore when we go that we gather them?
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\VS{29} But he tells
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them, No, lest gathering the tares you uproot the wheat with them.
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\VS{30} Allow them to grow together until the harvest, and in the time\fnKairos{} of the
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harvest I will say to the harvesters: Gather first the tares and bind them
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into bundles in order to burn them, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Mustard Seed}
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\VS{31} Another parable he placed before them saying: The kingdom of the
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heavens is like [a] mustard seed, which when [a] man takes he plants in his field,
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\VS{32} which indeed is smaller than all seeds, but when it has grown is
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the larger of the herbs and becomes [a] tree, so that the birds of heaven come and
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rest in its branches.
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Yeast}
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\VS{33} Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like
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leaven, which when [a] woman takes she hides [it] in three satons\fnSaton{} of meal,
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until all of it is leavened.
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\subsubsection{The Purpose of Parables}
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\VS{34} All these [things] \Iesous spoke in parables to the crowd, and without
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parables he said nothing to them.
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\VS{35} Thus what was said by the prophet
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was fulfilled when he says\footnote{Ps.78:2}:
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\begin{verse}
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I will open my mouth in parables, \\
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I will shout [things] secret \\
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From the foundation of the world.
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\end{verse}
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\subsubsection{Explanation for the Disciples}
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\VS{36} Then having left the crowd he came into the house. And his disciples
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came to him saying: Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.
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\VS{37} So answering he said: The [one] sowing the good seed is the son of man.
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\VS{38} And the field is the world, and the good seed these are
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the sons of the kingdom, and tares are the sons of the wicked\fnPoneros{} [one].
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\VS{39} And the enemy who sows these is the devil, and
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the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
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\VS{40} As therefore they gather the tares and burn them in fire, thus it
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will be in the completion of the age.
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\VS{41} The son of man will send his
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angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all [those] causing
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stumbling\footnote{or ``ruin", ``disaster"} and those doing lawlessness.
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\VS{42} And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be
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wailing and grinding\footnote{``snarling," ``biting," ``gnashing."} of teeth.
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\VS{43} Then the just will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their father.
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The [one] having ears to be hearing\footnote{``ears to be hearing" W \koine D most;
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``ears" \sinaiticus{} B}, let\fnImperative{} him be hearing.
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\subsubsection{Parables on the Kingdom of the Heavens}
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\VS{44} The kingdom of the heavens is like [a] treasure hidden in the field,
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which when [a] man found he hid, and from his joy he goes and sells whatever he
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has and buys that field.
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\VS{45} Again the kingdom of the heavens is like
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[a] traveler seeking beautiful pearls.
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\VS{46} And when he finds one costly
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pearl, having gone he has sold all that he had and bought it.
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\VS{47} Again the kingdom of the heavens is like [a] net having been thrown in the sea and
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having gathered out of every kind,
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\VS{48} which when it was filled they
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drag [it] to the shore and having sat they gather the good into containers, but
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the rotten they throw out.
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\VS{49} Thus it will be in the completion of the age.
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The angels will come and separate the wicked\fnPoneros{} from the midst of the just.
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\VS{50} And they will throw them into the fiery furnace. There shall
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there be wailing and grinding of teeth.
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\VS{51} Have you understood all these [things]? They say to him: Yes.
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\VS{52} So he said to them: Because of this
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every scribe who becomes [a] disciple in the kingdom of the heavens is like [a]
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man [who is a] householder, who brings out of his treasure new [things] and old.
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\subsubsection{Rejection at \Nazareth}
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\VS{53} And it came to pass \Iesous then finished these parables, [and] he departed
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from there.
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\VS{54} And having come to his own native-land he taught them in
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their synagogue, so that they were amazed and were saying: Whence [is] this
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wisdom and power to this [man]?
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\VS{55} Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not
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his mother called \Mary and his brothers \Jacob\fnJacob{} and \Joseph\footnote{``\Joseph" \hesychian
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\sinaiticus{}B \vulgate{} ; ``\Joses" W many} and \Simon and \Ioudas?
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\VS{56} And are not all
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his sisters with us? Whence therefore are all these [things] to this [man]?
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\VS{57} And they were being stumbled in him. So \Iesous says to them: [a] prophet is not
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without honor except in his own native-land and in his house.
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\VS{58} And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
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