And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

And other seed fell into good soil, and as the plants grew and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times [as much as had been sown].”

And He said to them, Does a lamp come to be put under a grain-measure, or under a bed? and not to be set on a lampstand?

Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:

then went to bed and got up the next day to find that the seed had sprouted and grown, yet he did not know how it happened.

For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

But when the crop ripens, he immediately puts in the sickle [to reap], because [the time for] the harvest has come.”

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

but rather grown worse, Having heard of Jesus, came in the croud behind, and touched his garment.

And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

because they had not understood [the miracle of] the loaves [how it revealed the power and deity of Jesus]; but [in fact] their heart was hardened [being oblivious and indifferent to His amazing works].

And whoever causes one of these little ones [i.e., humble followers of the Lord. See Matt. 18:6] who believes in me to be led astray [from God], he would have been better off to have had a huge millstone tied around his neck and thrown into the ocean [Note: This was a heavy, circular stone rolled over grain to crush it, and moved by an animal walking in a circle].

And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,