13:1当那一天,耶稣从房子里出来,坐在海边。
13:2有许多人到他那里聚集,他只得上船坐下,众人都站在岸上。
13:3他用比喻对他们讲许多道理,说:“有一个撒种的出去撒种。
13:4撒的时候,有落在路旁的,飞鸟来吃尽了;
13:5有落在土浅石头地上的,土既不深,发苗最快,
13:6日头出来一晒,因为没有根,就枯干了;
13:7有落在荆棘里的,荆棘长起来,把它挤住了;
13:8又有落在好土里的,就结实,有一百倍的,有六十倍的,有三十倍的。
13:9有耳可听的,就应当听!”
13:10门徒进前来,问耶稣说:“对众人讲话为什么用比喻呢?”
13:11耶稣回答说:“因为天国的奥秘,只叫你们知道,不叫他们知道。
13:12凡有的,还要加给他,叫他有余;凡没有的,连他所有的也要夺去。
13:13所以我用比喻对他们讲,是因他们看也看不见,听也听不见,也不明白。
13:14在他们身上,正应了以赛亚的预言,说:
‘你们听是要听见,却不明白;
看是要看见,却不晓得。
13:15因为这百姓油蒙了心,
耳朵发沉,
眼睛闭著;
恐怕眼睛看见,
耳朵听见,
心里明白,回转过来,
我就医治他们。’
13:16但你们的眼睛是有福的,因为看见了;你们的耳朵也是有福的,因为听见了。
13:17我实在告诉你们:从前有许多先知和义人要看你们所看的,却没有看见;要听你们所听的,却没有听见。
13:18所以,你们当听这撒种的比喻:
13:19凡听见天国道理不明白的,那恶者就来,把所撒在他心里的夺了去,这就是撒在路旁的了;
13:20撒在石头地上的,就是人听了道,当下欢喜领受,
13:21只因心里没有根,不过是暂时的,及至为道遭了患难,或是受了逼迫,立刻就跌倒了;
13:22撒在荆棘里的,就是人听了道,后来有世上的思虑,钱财的迷惑,把道挤住了,不能结实;
13:23撒在好地上的,就是人听道明白了,后来结实,有一百倍的,有六十倍的,有三十倍的。”
1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.
2Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.
3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.
4As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
6But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.
8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
9He who has ears, let him hear."
10The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?"
11He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
13This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: " 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
17For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
18"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
19When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.
23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."