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The Book of Jesus Chapter Six: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
Because, it is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it is not given. The secrets of the Kingdom
of God are revealed to you, but to those on the outside all things are shown in parables. That seeing, they may see and not perceive
and hearing, they may hear and not understand. Lest at anytime they might be converted and their sins should be forgiven them. For
anyone who has, to him more will be given and he will have more abundance. But from anyone who does not have, even what he has
will be taken away.
Therefore, I speak to them in parables, because they see without seeing and hear without hearing, neither do they understand. And in
them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled which says:
"By hearing, you will hear, but will not understand. And seeing, you will see, but will not perceive. For the heart of this nation
[people] has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing and they have shut their eyes. For fear they should see with their eyes, hear
with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them."
But happy are your eyes, because they see and your ears, because they hear. I tell you most sincerely, many prophets and holy men
desired [longed] to see those things which you see and never saw it; to hear those things which you hear and never heard it.
NARRATOR.
He said to them:
JESUS.
Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables? You, therefore, hear the parable of the sower.
This then, is the explanation of the parable:
The seed is the Word of God, the sower is sowing the Word. Those by the edge of the path where the Word is sown are the ones who
hear the Word. When a person has heard the Word of the Kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one; the devil, Satan,
comes immediately and carries off the Word that was sown in his heart, in the eventuality that they should believe and be saved. This
is the man who received the seed by the edge of the path.
Similarly, those who receive the seed on rocky ground are people who, when they first hear the Word, immediately receive it with
joy, but they have no root in them, they do not last. They believe for a while, but let some trial come or some persecution on account
of the Word and they fall away at once and give up.
Then there are people who received the seed among thorns. These have heard the Word, but as they go on way, the worries of this
world, the lure [deceitfulness] of riches and pleasures of this life come in and choke the Word and it produces and brings no fruit to
maturity, the person becomes unfruitful.
And there are those who have received the seed in rich soil. They are the ones who hear the Word, understand it and accept it. They,
which in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it and bear fruit and produce some a hundredfold, some sixty, some
thirty through their perseverance.
Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15
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Parable of the Wheat and the Darnel
NARRATOR.
He put another parable before them and said:
JESUS.
The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But, while everyone slept, his enemy came
and sowed false grain; darnel; [a weedy rye grass], among the wheat and made off. When the blade of the wheat sprung up, ripened
and brought forth fruit, the darnel appeared also. The servants of the owner went to him and said; 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in
your field? Where did the darnel come from then?' He said to them, `An enemy has done this.' The said to him; `Do you want us to
weed it out?' But he said; `No, because while you are weeding out the darnel, you might also uproot the wheat with it. Let them both
grow together until the harvest. Then at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First collect the darnel and tie them in
bundles to burn them, then gather the wheat into my barn."'
Matthew 13:24-30
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