When Jesus reached the official's house, and saw the flute-players and the disturbance the crowd was making,

" 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not beat your breasts!'

And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

And what was sown in good ground means the man who listens to the message and understands it, and yields one a hundred, and another sixty, and another thirty-fold."

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

And the owner's slaves came to him and said, 'Was not the seed good that you sowed in your field, sir? So where did these weeds come from?'

Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

Then he left the crowds and went into his house. And his disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us the figure of the weeds in the field."

The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a hoard of money, buried in a field, which a man found, and buried again. And he was overjoyed, and went and sold everything he had and bought the field.

But when he felt the wind he was frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, "Master, save me!"

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

For just as in those days before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

and knew nothing about it until the flood came and destroyed them all, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burial ground for strangers.

For this reason that piece of ground has ever since been called the Field of Blood.

and gave them for the Potter's Field as the Lord directed me."