Matthew 13

1On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.Cross-references: Matt 9:28 · Matt 13:36 · Mark 2:13 · Mark 4:1 · Luke 8:4

2Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Matt 4:25 · Matt 15:30 · Mark 4:1 · Luke 5:3 · Luke 8:4

3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.Cross-references: Judg 9:8 · 2Sam 12:1 · Ps 49:4 · Ps 78:2 · Isa 5:1 · Ezek 17:2 · +20 more

4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.Cross-references: Matt 13:18

5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.Cross-references: Ezek 11:19 · Ezek 36:26 · Amos 6:12 · Zech 7:12 · Matt 13:20

6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.Cross-references: Isa 49:10 · Matt 7:26 · Matt 13:21 · Luke 8:13 · Eph 3:17 · Col 1:23 · +3 more

7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.Cross-references: Gen 3:18 · Jer 4:3 · Matt 13:22 · Mark 4:18

8Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Matt 13:23 · Luke 8:15 · John 15:8 · Rom 7:18 · Gal 5:22 · +1 more

9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”Cross-references: Matt 11:15 · Matt 13:16 · Mark 4:9 · Mark 4:23 · Mark 7:14 · Rev 2:7 · +7 more

10The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”Cross-references: Mark 4:10 · Mark 4:33

11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Ps 25:14 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 35:8 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 16:17 · +29 more

12For 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.Cross-references: Isa 5:4 · Matt 21:43 · Matt 25:29 · Mark 4:24 · Mark 12:9 · Luke 8:18 · +9 more

13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.Cross-references: Deut 29:3 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 5:21 · Ezek 12:2 · Matt 13:16 · +4 more

14In 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 way perceive;Cross-references: Isa 6:9 · Ezek 12:2 · Mark 4:12 · Luke 8:10 · John 12:39 · Acts 28:25 · +2 more

15for 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 their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’Cross-references: Ps 119:70 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 44:20 · Isa 57:18 · Jer 3:22 · +15 more

16“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.Cross-references: Matt 5:3 · Matt 16:17 · Luke 2:29 · Luke 10:23 · John 20:29 · Acts 26:18 · +2 more

17For 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 things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.Cross-references: Luke 10:24 · John 8:56 · Eph 3:5 · Heb 11:13 · Heb 11:39 · 1Pet 1:10

18“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.Cross-references: Matt 13:11 · Mark 4:13 · Luke 8:11

19When 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 is what was sown by the roadside.Cross-references: Prov 1:7 · Prov 1:20 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 17:16 · Prov 18:1 · Matt 4:23 · +27 more

20What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;Cross-references: 1Sam 11:13 · 2Chr 24:2 · 2Chr 24:6 · 2Chr 24:14 · Ps 78:34 · Ps 106:12 · +8 more

21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.Cross-references: Job 19:28 · Job 27:8 · Ps 36:3 · Prov 12:3 · Prov 12:12 · Hos 6:4 · +39 more

22What 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 becomes unfruitful.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Josh 7:20 · 2Ki 5:20 · Ps 52:7 · Ps 62:10 · Prov 11:28 · +25 more

23What 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 times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”Cross-references: Ps 1:1 · Ps 92:13 · Prov 1:5 · Prov 2:2 · Ezek 18:31 · Ezek 36:26 · +36 more

24He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,Cross-references: Judg 14:12 · Isa 28:10 · Isa 28:13 · Ezek 17:2 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:23 · +16 more

25but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.Cross-references: Isa 56:9 · Matt 13:39 · Matt 25:5 · Acts 20:30 · 2Cor 11:13 · Gal 2:4 · +7 more

26But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.Cross-references: Mark 4:26

27The 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?’Cross-references: Rom 16:17 · 1Cor 1:11 · 1Cor 3:5 · 1Cor 12:28 · 1Cor 15:12 · 1Cor 16:10 · +7 more

28“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’Cross-references: Luke 9:49 · 1Cor 5:3 · 2Cor 2:6 · 1Thess 5:14 · Jude 1:22

29“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

30Let 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 bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”Cross-references: 1Sam 25:29 · Isa 27:10 · Ezek 15:4 · Mal 3:18 · Matt 3:12 · Matt 13:39 · +8 more

31He 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,Cross-references: Matt 13:24 · Matt 17:20 · Mark 4:30 · Luke 13:18 · Luke 17:6 · Luke 19:11 · +1 more

32which 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 lodge in its branches.”Cross-references: Ps 72:16 · Ps 104:12 · Isa 2:2 · Ezek 17:23 · Ezek 31:6 · Ezek 47:1 · +11 more

33He 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.”Cross-references: Gen 18:6 · Job 17:9 · Prov 4:18 · Hos 6:3 · Matt 13:24 · Mark 13:20 · +10 more

34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,Cross-references: Matt 13:13 · Mark 4:33 · John 16:25Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

35that 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 foundation of the world.”Cross-references: Ps 49:4 · Ps 78:2 · Isa 42:9 · Amos 3:7 · Matt 13:14 · Matt 21:4 · +16 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

36Then 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 field.”Cross-references: Matt 9:28 · Matt 13:1 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 14:22 · Matt 15:15 · Matt 15:39 · +5 more

37He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,Cross-references: Matt 8:20 · Matt 10:40 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:27 · Matt 13:41 · Matt 16:13 · +8 more

38the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 22:30 · Isa 53:10 · Hos 2:23 · Zech 10:8 · Matt 13:19 · +19 more

39The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.Cross-references: Dan 7:10 · Joel 3:13 · Matt 13:25 · Matt 13:28 · Matt 13:49 · Matt 24:3 · +18 more

40As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.Cross-references: Matt 13:39

41The 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,Cross-references: Zeph 1:3 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 13:49 · Matt 18:7 · Matt 24:31 · +10 more

42and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Cross-references: Ps 21:9 · Dan 3:6 · Dan 3:15 · Dan 3:21 · Matt 3:12 · Matt 8:12 · +12 more

43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.Cross-references: Dan 12:3 · Matt 11:15 · Matt 25:34 · Matt 25:36 · Matt 26:29 · Luke 12:32 · +6 more

44“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 that field.Cross-references: Prov 2:2 · Prov 16:16 · Prov 17:16 · Prov 18:1 · Prov 23:23 · Isa 55:1 · +20 more

45“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,Cross-references: Job 28:18 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 39:6 · Prov 3:13 · Prov 8:10 · Prov 8:18 · +6 more

46who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.Cross-references: Prov 2:4 · Isa 33:6 · Matt 13:44 · Mark 10:28 · Luke 18:28 · Acts 20:24 · +6 more

47“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,Cross-references: Matt 4:19 · Matt 13:26 · Matt 22:9 · Matt 25:1 · Mark 1:17 · Luke 5:10 · +23 more

48which, 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.Cross-references: Matt 3:12 · Matt 13:30 · Matt 13:40

49So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,Cross-references: Matt 13:39 · Matt 22:12 · Matt 24:31 · Matt 25:5 · Matt 25:19 · 2Thess 1:7 · +1 more

50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”Cross-references: Matt 8:12 · Matt 13:42 · Matt 24:50 · Luke 13:27 · Rev 14:10 · Rev 16:10

51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”Cross-references: Matt 13:11 · Matt 13:19 · Matt 15:17 · Matt 16:11 · Matt 24:15 · Mark 4:34 · +5 more

52He 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 his treasure new and old things.”Cross-references: Ezra 7:6 · Ezra 7:10 · Ezra 7:21 · Prov 10:20 · Prov 11:30 · Prov 15:7 · +22 more

53When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.Cross-references: Matt 7:28 · Mark 4:33

54Coming 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 mighty works?Cross-references: Ps 22:22 · Ps 40:9 · Matt 2:23 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 7:28 · Mark 6:1 · +6 more

55Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?Cross-references: Ps 22:6 · Isa 49:7 · Isa 53:2 · Matt 1:18 · Matt 12:46 · Matt 27:56 · +14 more

56Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”

57They 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.”Cross-references: Isa 8:14 · Isa 49:7 · Isa 53:3 · Matt 11:6 · Mark 6:3 · Mark 6:14 · +10 more

58He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.Cross-references: Mark 6:5 · Luke 4:25 · Rom 11:20 · Heb 3:12 · Heb 4:6