their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears,
or understanding with their minds, and turning back,
so that I might heal them.'
013:016 "But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see,
and your ears, for they hear.
013:017 For I solemnly tell you that many Prophets and holy men have
longed to see the sights you see, and have not seen them,
and to hear the words you hear, and have not heard them.
013:018 "To you then I will explain the parable of the Sower.
013:019 When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does
not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has
been sown in his heart. This is he who has received the seed
by the road-side.
013:020 He who has received the seed on the rocky ground is the man
who hears the Message and immediately receives it with joy.
013:021 It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues
for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution,
because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.
013:022 He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man
who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age
and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message,
and it becomes unfruitful.
013:023 But he who has received the seed on good ground is he who hears
and understands. Such hearers give a return, and yield one
a hundred for one, another sixty, another thirty.")
013:024 Another parable He put before them. "The Kingdom of
the Heavens," He said, "may be compared to a man who has sown
good seed in his field,
013:025 but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed
he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.