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<span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>He answered and said to them, Because to you it is granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not granted to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>For to him who has, shall be given and it shall increase to him; but to him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken away from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>This is the reason I speak to them in figures, because they see and yet cannot perceive; and they hear and yet do not listen, nor do they understand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah who said, Hearing you will hear, but you will not understand; and seeing you will see, but you will not know.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>For the heart of this people has become hardened, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are dull; so that they cannot see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts; let them return, and I will heal them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>But as for you, blessed are your eyes for they see; and your ears for they hear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>For truly I say to you, a great many prophets and righteous men have longed to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Now you listen to the parable of the seed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Whoever hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away the word which has been sown in his heart. This is that which was sown on the roadside. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>That which was sown upon the rock, this is he who hears the word, and immediately accepts it with joy; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>But it has no root in him, except for a while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately stumbles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>That which was sown among thistles, this is he who hears the word, but worldly thoughts and the deception caused by riches choke the word, and it becomes fruitless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>That which was sown upon good soil, this is he who hears my word, and understands it, so he bears fruit and produces some one hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>He related another parable to them, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And when the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>But when the blade sprang up and bore fruit, then the tares also appeared. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>So the servants of the landowner came and said to him, Our lord, behold, did you not sow good seed in your field; whence did the tares come into it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>He said to them, An enemy did this; his servants then said to him, Do you want us to go and pick them out? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>But he said to them, It might happen that while you were picking out the tares, you might uproot with them also the wheat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>Let them both grow together until the harvest; and at the harvest season, I will say to the reapers, Pick out first the tares, and bind them into bundles to be burned; but gather the wheat into my barns.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>He related another parable to them, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>It is the smallest of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is larger than all of the herbs; and it becomes a tree, so that the fowls of the sky come and nest in its branches.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>He told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like the leaven, which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus spoke all these things to the people in parables; and without parables he did not speak to them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>So that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophet, who said, I will open my mouth in parables, and I will bring out secrets hidden before the foundation of the world.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-36.htm#aramaic"><b>36</b></a></span>Then Jesus left the multitudes and came into the house; and his disciples came up to him, and said, Explain to us the parable of the tares and the field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-37.htm#aramaic"><b>37</b></a></span>He answered and said to them, He who sowed good seed is the Son of man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-38.htm#aramaic"><b>38</b></a></span>The field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the tares are the sons of evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-39.htm#aramaic"><b>39</b></a></span>The enemy who sowed them is Satan; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-40.htm#aramaic"><b>40</b></a></span>Therefore, just as the tares are picked out and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-41.htm#aramaic"><b>41</b></a></span>The Son of man will send his angels, and they will pick out from his kingdom all things which cause stumbling, and all workers of iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-42.htm#aramaic"><b>42</b></a></span>And they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-43.htm#aramaic"><b>43</b></a></span>Then the righteous ones shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-44.htm#aramaic"><b>44</b></a></span>Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure which is hidden in the field, which a man discovered and hid, and because of his joy, he went and sold everything he had, and bought that field.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-45.htm#aramaic"><b>45</b></a></span>Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant, who was seeking good pearls. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-46.htm#aramaic"><b>46</b></a></span>And when he had found one costly pearl, he went and sold everything he had, and bought it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-47.htm#aramaic"><b>47</b></a></span>Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea, and it gathered fish of every kind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-48.htm#aramaic"><b>48</b></a></span>When it was filled, they drew it to the shore, and sat down and sorted them; the good ones they put into bags, and the bad they threw away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-49.htm#aramaic"><b>49</b></a></span>So will it be at the end of the world; the angels will go out and separate the bad from among the righteous, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-50.htm#aramaic"><b>50</b></a></span>And they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-51.htm#aramaic"><b>51</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, Have you understood all of these things? They said to him, Yes, our Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-52.htm#aramaic"><b>52</b></a></span>He said to them, Therefore every scribe who is converted to the kingdom of heaven, is like a man who is a householder, who brings out new and old things from his treasures.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-53.htm#aramaic"><b>53</b></a></span>When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-54.htm#aramaic"><b>54</b></a></span>And he came to his own city; and he taught them in their synagogues, in such a way, that they were amazed and said, Where did he get this wisdom and these wonders? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-55.htm#aramaic"><b>55</b></a></span>Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-56.htm#aramaic"><b>56</b></a></span>Are not all his sisters with us? Where did he get all these things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-57.htm#aramaic"><b>57</b></a></span>And they were perplexed about him. But Jesus said to them, No prophet is insulted, except in his own city and in his own house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/matthew/13-58.htm#aramaic"><b>58</b></a></span>And he did not perform many miracles there, because of their unbelief.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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