And on that day Y'shua went out from the house and sat by the side of the sea.

And great crowds assembled to him, so that he went up and sat in a boat, and all the crowd was standing on the shore of the sea.

And he spoke much with them in parables, and said, A sower went out to sow.

And as he sowed, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and ate it.

And other seed fell on rock where there was not much soil, and at once it sprang up because there was no depth of earth.

But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root it dried up.

And other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it.

And other seed fell on good earth and gave fruit, some a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.

Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

And his disciples came near and say to him, Why do you speak with them in parables?

But he answered and said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

For to whoever has, it will be given to him and it will increase for him.

And from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. Because of this I speak with them in parables, because they see and do not see, and they hear and do not hear, and they do not understand.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Eshaya who said, Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not know.

For the heart of this people has grown fat, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I should heal them.

But happy are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

But you hear the parable of the seed.

Everyone who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away the word sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the side of the path.

But that which was sown on the rock is he who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

Yet he has no root in him, but is only for a time, and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he soon stumbles.

But that which was sown among thorns is he who hears the word, and the care of this world and the deceit of riches choke the word, and it becomes without fruit.

But that which was sown on good ground is he who hears my word and understands, and gives fruit and yields, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

He set another parable before them and said: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

And while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

And when the grass sprouted and made fruit, then the tares also appeared.

And the servants of the master of the house came near and said to him, Our master, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where are the tares in it?

And he said to them, An enemy man has done this. His servants say to him, Do you want us to go gather them?

And he said to them, No, lest while you gather the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.

Leave them; let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather the tares first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my storehouse.

He set another parable before them and said: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

And it is the smallest of all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than all the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the bird of heaven comes and nests in its branches.

He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and buried in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

All these things Y'shua spoke in parables to the crowd, and without a parable he did not speak with them.

so that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, who said: I will open my mouth in parables, and I will utter things hidden from before the foundation of the world.

Then Y'shua left the crowd and came into the house. And his disciples came to him and said to him: Explain to us the parable of the tares and of the field.

But he answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of man.

And the field is the world. And the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil one.

And the enemy who sowed them is Satana. And the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the messengers.

Just as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this world.

The Son of man will send his messengers, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling blocks and all the doers of iniquity,

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid, and from his joy he went and sold all that he has and bought that field.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant who was seeking good pearls:

and when he found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and gathered fishes of every kind.

And when it was full, they drew it up to the shore of the sea, and sat down and sorted: and the good they put into vessels, and the bad they threw outside.

So it will be at the completion of the world. The messengers will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous.

And they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Y'shua said to them, Have you understood all these things? They say to him, Yes, our Master.

He said to them, Because of this, every scribe who is discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like a man, master of a house, who brings out from his treasure things new and old.

And it was that when Y'shua finished these parables, he moved from there.

And he came to his city and was teaching them in their assemblies, so that they were amazed and said, From where does this one have this wisdom and these powers?

Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Maryam, and his brothers Ya'akov and Yosa and Shimon and Yehuda?

And all his sisters, are they not with us? From where then does this man have all these things?

And they were stumbling at him. But Y'shua said to them: There is no prophet who is little, except in his city and in his house.

And he did not do many works of power there, because of their unbelief.