1THEN once again he began to teach them by the lakeside. A bigger crowd than ever collected around him so that he got into the small boat on the lake and sat down, while the crowd covered the ground right down to the water's edge.
2He taught them a great deal in parables, and in the course of his teaching he said,
3"Listen! A man once went out to sow his seed
4and as he sowed, some seed fell by the roadside and the birds came and gobbled it up.
5Some of the seed fell among the rocks where there was not much soil, and sprang up very quickly because there was no depth of earth.
6But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.
7And some of the seed fell among thornbushes and the thorns grew up and choked the life out of it, and it bore no crop.
8And there was some seed which fell on good soil, and when it sprang up and grew, produced a amp which yielded thirty or sixty or even a hundred times as much as the seed."
9Then he added, "Every man who has ears should use them!"
10Then when they were by themselves, his close followers and the twelve asked him about the parables,
11and he told them. "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those who do not know the secret, everything remains in parables,
12so that, Seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them."
13Then he continued, "Do you really not understand this parable? Then how are you going to understand all the other parables?
14The man who sows, sows the message.
15As for those who are by the roadside where the message is sown, as soon as they hear it Satan comes at once and takes away what has been sown in their minds.
16Similarly, the seed sown among the rocks represents those who hear the message without hesitation and accept it joyfully.
17But they have real roots and do not lastwhen trouble or persecution arises because of the message, they give up their faith at once.
18Then there are the seeds which were sown among thornbushes. These are the people who hear the message,
19but the worries of this world and the false glamour of riches and all sorts of other ambitions creep in and choke the life out of what they have heard, and it produces no crop in their lives.
20As for the seed sown on good soil, this means the men who hear the message and accept it and do produce a cropthirty, sixty, even a hundred times as much as they received."
21Then he said to them, "Is a lamp brought into the room to be put under a bucket or underneath the bed? Surely its place is on the lampstand!
22There is nothing hidden which is not meant to be made perfectly plain one days and there are no secrets which are not meant one day to be common knowledge.
23If a man has ears he should use them!
24"Pay attention to what you hear," he said to them. "Whatever measure you use will be used towards you, and even more than that.
25For the man who has something will receive more. As for the man who has nothing, even his 'nothing' will be taken away."
26Then he said, "The kingdom of God is like a man scattering seed on the ground
27and then going to bed each night and goring up every morning, while the seed sprouts and grows up, though he has no idea how it happens.
28The earth produces a crop without any help from anyone: first a blade, then the ear of corn, then the fullgrown grain in the ear.
29And as soon as the crop is ready he sends the reapers in without delay, for the harvesttime has come."
30Then he continued, "What can we say the kingdom of God is like? How shall we put it in a parable?
31It is like a tiny grain of mustardseed which, when it is sown, is smaller than any seed that is ever sown.
32But after it is sown in the earth, it grows up and becomes bigger than any other plant. It shoots out great branches so that birds can come and nest in its shelter."
33So he taught them his message with many parables like these, as far as their minds could understand it.
34He did not speak to them at all without using parables, although in private he explained everything to his disciples.
35On the evening of that day, he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake."
36So they sent the crowd home and took him with them in the small boat in which he had been sitting, accompanied by other small craft.
37Then came a violent squall of wind which drove the waves aboard the boat until it was almost swamped.
38Jesus was in the stern asleep on the cushion. They awoke him with the words, "Master, don't you care that we're drowning?"
39And he woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, "Hush now! Be still!" The wind dropped and there was a dead calm.
40"Why are you so frightened? Do you not trust me even yet?" he asked them.
41But sheer awe swept over them, and they kept saying to each other, "Who ever can he be?even the wind and the waves do what he tells them!"
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