On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

And He *said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

The sower sows the word.

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.”

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

“Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.”

And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

They became very much afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”