"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

Other seeds fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,

Ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

He told them, "You will indeed drink from my cup. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father."

But the one who received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and buried his master's money.

Since I was afraid, I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here, take what's yours!'

So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

the ground produces grain by itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.

Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.

Even while the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, "Grant me justice against my adversary.'

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice. Otherwise, she will keep coming and wear me out.'"

Won't God grant his chosen people justice when they cry out to him day and night? Is he slow to help them?

They will level you to the ground you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn't recognize the time when you were visited."

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground.

After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

When Jesus told them, "I AM," they backed away and fell to the ground.

Then the Lord told him, "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

While they were listening to these things, they became more and more furious and began to grind their teeth at him.

He dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

When Saul got up off the ground, he couldn't see anything, even though his eyes were open. So his companions took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

His secret, inner heart will become known, and so he will bow down to the ground and worship God, declaring, "God is truly among you!"

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, for he often took care of me and was not ashamed that I was a prisoner.

May the Lord grant that he finds mercy on the day he comes again. You know very well how much he assisted me in Ephesus.

For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God.

The world wasn't worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and from caves to holes in the ground.

Then he prayed again, and the skies poured out rain, and the ground produced its crops.