When He saw the crowds, His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep without a shepherd.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me tonight, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

then came he who had received the one talent, and said, Lord, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered:

His lord answering said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather whence I had not scattered?

And a vast multitude spread their garments in the way, and others cut branches from the trees and scattered them in the way;

"He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but he upon whom it falls will be scattered as dust."

When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one [i.e., the devil] comes to him and grabs away what had been sown in his heart. This is the person who was scattered to the side of the road.

but while his workers were asleep his enemy came and scattered weed seeds throughout his wheat field and then left.

The enemy who scattered the weed seeds is the devil; the harvest time is the end of the world; and the harvesters are angels.

'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,

And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day.