And at that very moment, there in their synagogue, a man in the grip of an unclean spirit shrieked out.

And no one puts freshly squeezed grape juice into bottles made of previously used animal skins. If he does, the grape juice will [cause cracks and] burst the [dried-out] animal skins and the grape juice will [all leak out and] be wasted, and the animal skin bottles will become useless. But people put freshly squeezed grape juice into newly prepared animal skin bottles."

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce a crop.

And other [seed] fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore [a crop]--one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred [times as much].

but the worries and cares of the world [the distractions of this age with its worldly pleasures], and the deceitfulness [and the false security or glamour] of wealth [or fame], and the passionate desires for all the other things creep in and choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But the ones sown on good ground are those who hear the word, welcome it, and produce a crop: 30, 60, and 100 times what was sown.”

By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

But when the crop permits, he sends [in] the sickle right away, because the harvest has come."

And He commanded them all to recline, group by group, on the green grass.

And they reclined group by group, by hundred and by fifty.

But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he stood up.

Taking a child, He set him before them; and taking him in His arms, He said to them,

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

or, to the people (See Luke 20:9)] by using parables. He said, "A man planted a vineyard and built a fence around it. He dug a place for constructing a grape squeezing device, built a [lookout] tower [near it], then leased it out to tenant farmers and went to another country.

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, in a private group, were asking Him,

Then He took a cup [i.e., probably wine made from fresh or possibly preserved grape juice], and when He had given thanks to God, He passed it to them and they all drank from it.

Truly I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine [i.e., grape juice] any more until that day when I will drink it again [i.e., figuratively] in the kingdom of God."