and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.

it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.

and with the fan in his hand, he will throughly cleanse his floor, and gather the wheat into his grainery, but the chaff will he burn with unquenchable fire."

and with the fan in his hand he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will lay up the wheat in his grainery: but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire.

verily, verily I say unto you, when a corn of wheat is thrown into the ground, there it lies a single grain unless it dies: but if it die, it becomes very fruitful.

foolish as you are, the grain you sow, is not revived except it die.

and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:

but the ground that received the grain, represents those, who hear the word, and consider it, who all become fruitful, some in one degree, and some in another.

Another parable he propos'd to them in these words. the state of the gospel in this world may be compar'd to a man who sowed good grain in his field:

but when the blade was sprung up, and bore grain, the tares appeared too.

so the servants of the yeoman came and said, Sir, did not you sow your field with good grain: how comes it then to have tares?

He propos'd another parable to them, which was this; the gospel-state is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took to sow in his field.

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

however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.

for the earth spontaneously produces, first the blade, then the ear, after that the grain of corn in the ear.