Matthew Chapter 13

• Matthew 13:1
  Matthew.
• Matthew 13:2
  On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
• Matthew 13:3
  Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.
• Matthew 13:4
  He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
• Matthew 13:5
  As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
• Matthew 13:6
  Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
• Matthew 13:7
  When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
• Matthew 13:8
  Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
• Matthew 13:9
  Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
• Matthew 13:10
  He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Matthew 13:11
  The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
• Matthew 13:12
  He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• Matthew 13:13
  For 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.
• Matthew 13:14
  Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
• Matthew 13:15
  In 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...
• Matthew 13:16
  for 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 t...
• Matthew 13:17
  “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
• Matthew 13:18
  For 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 thing...
• Matthew 13:19
  “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
• Matthew 13:20
  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This ...
• Matthew 13:21
  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;
• Matthew 13:22
  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
• Matthew 13:23
  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he become...
• Matthew 13:24
  What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred time...
• Matthew 13:25
  He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
• Matthew 13:26
  but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
• Matthew 13:27
  But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
• Matthew 13:28
  The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’
• Matthew 13:29
  “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
• Matthew 13:30
  “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
• Matthew 13:31
  Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundle...
• Matthew 13:32
  He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
• Matthew 13:33
  which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and l...
• Matthew 13:34
  He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened...
• Matthew 13:35
  Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
• Matthew 13:36
  that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the founda...
• Matthew 13:37
  Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the...
• Matthew 13:38
  He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
• Matthew 13:39
  the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
• Matthew 13:40
  The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
• Matthew 13:41
  As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
• Matthew 13:42
  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity,
• Matthew 13:43
  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matthew 13:44
  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
• Matthew 13:45
  “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys ...
• Matthew 13:46
  “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
• Matthew 13:47
  who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
• Matthew 13:48
  “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,
• Matthew 13:49
  which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
• Matthew 13:50
  So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
• Matthew 13:51
  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• Matthew 13:52
  Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Matthew 13:53
  He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of h...
• Matthew 13:54
  When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
• Matthew 13:55
  Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these m...
• Matthew 13:56
  Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
• Matthew 13:57
  Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
• Matthew 13:58
  They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.”
• Matthew 13:59
  He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.