Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so it bore no crop;

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

Also he said to them, "Take care what you hear; the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves, and you will receive extra.

That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"

so, leaving the crowd, they took him just as he was in the boat, accompanied by some other boats.

But they were overawed and said to each other, "Whatever can he be, when the very wind and sea obey him?"

Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.

others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].)

"John the Baptist," they told him, "though some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the prophets."

Many also spread their clothes on the road, while others strewed leaves cut from the fields;

He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed.

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others.

The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]