some other seed fell on stony soil, where it had not much earth; and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil,

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so that it yielded no crop.

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

There are others who are 'sown among thorns.'

When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

On the evening of that same day Jesus said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them just as he was in the boat; and the other boats were with him.

Then after Jesus had recrossed in a boat to the other side, a vast multitude came crowding around him; so he stayed on the seashore.

"He is Elijah," said others. And still others were saying, "He is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

Then he at once compelled the disciples to embark in the boat and go before him to Bethsaida on the other side, while he sent the people away.

and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans.

Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

Then he left them, and getting into the boat again, went away to the other side,

And they told him. "Some say John the Baptist, others, Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

On leaving that place Jesus came into the borders of Judea, on the other side of the Jordan, Once more the people flocked about him, and again, as usual, he began teaching them.

They answered, "Allow us to sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

Then many spread their cloaks on the road, and others, soft leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields;

On the other hand, if we say, 'From men'!" They were afraid, however, of the people, for every one held that John had been really a prophet.

And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others; beating some, and killing some.

What will the owner of the Vineyard do?" "He will come and put the tenants to death," they said, "and will give the vineyard to others."

"The second is this, "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Other command greater than these there is none."

and that beside him there is none other, and to love him with all one's heart and with all one's understanding and with all one's might, and to love one's neighbor as oneself is far beyond all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save.

women who used to follow him when he was in Galilee, and minister to him; and many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

They too went, and told the others; but they did not believe them, either.