About the same time Jesus walked through the corn-fields one Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and began to pick some ears of wheat and eat them.

No one sets light to a lamp, and then puts it in the cellar of under the corn-measure, but he puts it on the lamp-stand, so that any one who comes in may see the light.

So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Meanwhile the elder son was out in the fields; but, on coming home, when he got near the house, he heard music and dancing,

Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

And Jesus said to them: "Is a lamp brought to be put under the corn-measure or under the couch, instead of being put on the lampstand?

Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields;

In that same country-side were shepherds out in the open fields, watching their flocks that night,

Do not you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

Men do not light a lamp and put it under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, where it gives light to every one in the house.

So, when the blades of corn shot up, and came into ear, the tares made their appearance also.

I tell you, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been fraudulently keeping back, are crying out against you, and the outcries of your reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts!