Matthew 13

Matthew 13:1

• That same day,
• That same day
• On that day
• On that day,
• That day

• Jesus

• went out of the
• left the

• house and
• house, and

• sat by the
• was sitting by the
• sat down by the
• sat beside the
• sat down beside the

• Sea,
• sea.
• lake.
• sea side.
• Sea of Galilee.

Matthew 13:2

• Such large
• Large
• And great
• A large
• such great
• Such great
• And large

• crowds
• crowd
• crowd that

• gathered around
• gathered about
• gathered to

• him, that
• Him that
• him that
• him.
• him,
• Him,
• him
• him. So

• He
• he
• so that He
• so that he
• so he
• so He

• got into a

• boat, and
• boat and
• boat.
• boat to

• sat down. All the
• sat, and all the
• sat; and all the
• sat in it, while all the

• people
• multitude

• stood on the
• stayed on the

• shore,
• shore.
• beach.

Matthew 13:3

• Then he
• Then He
• and he
• And he
• He

• told
• spoke to
• taught

• them

• many things in
• many things by

• parables.
• parables,
• using stories. He

• said: “A
• said, “A
• said: ’A
• said: A
• saying: “A
• said, ‘
• said, “
• saying, “Behold, the
• saying, “Behold, a
• saying: “Behold, a
• saying: “Listen! A

• sower
• farmer
• Listen! A farmer

• went out to

• sow;
• sow,
• sow.
• plant his seed.

Matthew 13:4

• And as he
• and as he
• As he
• While he

• sowed, some
• was scattering the
• scattered the
• was sowing, some

• seeds
• seed
• seed, some

• fell by the
• fell along the
• fell on the
• fell on a
• fell beside the

• path, and the
• path, and
• road, and the
• roadside, and the
• footpath; and the
• footpath, and the
• road. The

• birds came and

• ate
• devoured

• them,
• them:
• them.
• it up.
• them up.
• it.

Matthew 13:5

• Some seed
• Other seeds
• Others

• fell on
• fell on the

• rocky
• stony

• ground, where
• places, where

• they
• it

• did

• not
• n’t

• have much

• soil, and
• soil; and

• immediately

• they
• it

• sprang up, because
• sprang up because

• they had no depth of

• soil.
• soil,
• earth;
• earth,
• earth.

Matthew 13:6

• But when the sun
• but when the sun
• When the sun
• and when the sun

• came up
• came up,
• rose
• rose,
• had risen,

• they
• it

• were
• was

• scorched, and because
• scorched; and because
• scorched; and since
• scorched. And since
• scorched, and since

• they
• it

• had no
• did not have

• root
• root,

• they
• it

• withered away.
• withered,
• withered.
• died.

Matthew 13:7

• Other seeds fell among
• Other seed fell among
• Others fell among
• Some other seed fell among
• Some seed fell among
• And others fell upon the
• and others fell upon the

• thorns; and the
• thorns, and the
• thorns. The

• thorns

• grew
• came

• up and
• up, and

• choked
• choked the

• them,
• them:
• them.
• it.
• plants.
• them out.

Matthew 13:8

• and others
• And others
• Other seeds
• Others
• But other seeds
• Still other seed
• But some seed
• Other seed

• fell on
• fell on the
• fell upon the
• fell into

• good
• rich

• soil, and
• soil and
• ground, and
• ground and
• soil, where

• yielded
• yielded a

• crop, some a
• crop: some a

• hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Matthew 13:9

• He who has
• Everyone who has
• Whoever has
• Anyone who has
• The one who has
• If you have

• ears,
• ears
• ears to

• let
• should
• hear, let
• then

• listen!’
• listen.”
• listen!”
• him hear.’
• him hear.
• him hear!”
• him hear.”
• hear.’
• hear.”

Matthew 13:10

• Then the disciples
• The disciples
• And the disciples
• Jesus’ disciples
• The followers
• His disciples

• came, and
• came and
• came to
• came

• said to
• asked
• Jesus and asked

• him. “Why
• Him, “Why
• him, ‘Why
• him, “Why

• do

• you
• You

• speak to them in

• parables?’
• parables?”

Matthew 13:11

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 13:12

• For whoever has, to him more will be

• given and
• given, and
• given to

• he
• they

• will

• have an
• have

• abundance; but whoever
• abundance, but whoever
• abundance. But whoever

• does

• not
• n’t

• have, even what

• he
• they

• has
• have

• will be taken away from him.

Matthew 13:13

• This is why
• “This is why
• That is why

• I speak to them in

• parables; for
• parables, For

• they

• look, but
• see, but
• see,
• see

• they do

• not
• n’t really

• see.
• see, and although
• see; and although

• they
• They

• hear, but
• hear,
• hear
• listen, but

• they do

• not
• n’t really

• hear or
• listen or

• understand.
• understand,
• understand.’

Matthew 13:14

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 13:15

• For the heart of this people

• has
• have

• grown
• become

• dull, and with
• callous,
• callous;

• their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes they have

• closed, Lest
• closed, lest

• they

• might
• should

• see with
• perceive with

• their

• eyes and
• eyes, and
• eyes,
• eyes Or
• eyes or

• Hear with
• hear with

• their

• ears, And
• ears, and
• ears and
• ears,

• understand with their

• heart and
• hearts and

• turn—and
• turn, and

• I would heal

• them.
• them.”
• them.’

Matthew 13:16

• “But blessed
• But blessed
• ‘But blessed

• are your

• eyes, because
• eyes because
• eyes, for
• eyes for
• eyes:
• eyes

• they

• see, and
• see. And
• see and
• see; and
• see.
• see,

• your

• ears because
• ears, because
• ears for
• ears, for
• ears:
• ears

• they

• hear,
• hear.
• hear;
• hear!

Matthew 13:17

• I
• For truly, I
• For truly I
• for I
• For I
• for verily I
• For verily I
• Truly I
• Truly, I

• tell
• say to
• assure

• you, that
• you that
• you,
• you:
• you the truth.
• you the truth,

• many
• Many

• prophets and

• righteous
• good
• godly

• people
• men

• longed to
• desired to
• wanted to

• see what you

• see, and
• see and
• see but
• see, but

• did

• not
• n’t

• see

• it, and to
• it, to
• it; to

• hear what you

• hear but
• hear, but
• hear. But
• hear and
• hear, and

• did
• they did

• not
• n’t

• hear

• it!
• it.
• them.

Matthew 13:18

• “Hear
• ‘Hear
• “Hear,
• ‘You,
• “You,
• ‘Listen,
• “Listen

• then the
• then, the
• therefore,

• parable of the
• listen to the parable of the

• sower:
• sower.
• farmer.
• farmer:
• sower means:
• sower means.

Matthew 13:19

• When anyone hears the

• Word of the
• word of the
• Word about the
• word about the
• message about the
• message of the

• kingdom, and
• Kingdom, and
• kingdom and
• Kingdom but
• kingdom but

• does
• do

• not
• n’t

• understand

• it, the
• it. The
• it.
• it,

• evil one

• comes and
• comes, and

• snatches

• away what
• away that which

• was
• has been

• sown in
• planted in

• his
• their

• heart. This
• heart; this

• is what was

• sown along the
• sown beside the
• sown on the

• path.
• road.
• roadside.

Matthew 13:20

• The seed
• The seeds that
• What was

• sown on
• fell on
• sown on the

• rocky

• ground
• places, this
• places
• ground—this
• ground? That
• ground. That
• ground, this

• is the
• is
• is like the
• refers to

• person who
• one who
• people who
• he who
• someone who
• man who

• hears the
• hear the

• word and
• message and
• message and at
• message, and at
• teaching and

• immediately
• once

• receives
• receive
• accepts

• it with
• it

• joy,
• joy;
• joy.
• joyfully.
• joyfully;

Matthew 13:21

• Yet he
• yet he
• But he

• has no

• root in
• root,

• himself, but
• himself but
• they
• he

• lasts
• last

• only a

• short
• little

• while, and when
• time. When
• time, and when
• time; and, when

• trouble or
• tribulation or
• affliction or

• persecution comes because of the word,

• he
• they

• immediately
• quickly

• falls
• fall

• away.

Matthew 13:22

• The seed
• As for what was

• sown among
• sown among the

• thorns
• thorns, this

• is the
• is
• is like the

• person who
• one who
• he who
• people who
• someone who

• hears the
• hear the

• Word, but the
• word, but the
• word. But the
• word, and the
• message; but the
• message, but the

• worries of this
• worry of the
• cares of this
• cares of the

• life and the
• world and the
• age and the

• deceitfulness of
• lure of
• seduction of

• wealth
• riches

• choke the

• word and
• word, and
• message, and
• message and

• it
• it,
• he

• becomes
• produces
• bears no

• unfruitful.
• fruit.
• nothing.

Matthew 13:23

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 13:24

• Jesus
• He
• Then Jesus

• told
• told the
• put before

• them another

• parable: “The
• story: “The
• story: The
• story. He

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of
• said, ‘The kingdom of
• said, “The kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a
• is like this. A

• man who
• man
• person who

• sowed
• planted
• sowing

• good seed in his

• field.
• field:
• field,
• field;

Matthew 13:25

• But while everyone
• but while everyone
• But, while everyone
• But while his men
• but while his men
• But while people

• was
• were

• sleeping,
• asleep
• asleep,

• his enemy

• came and
• came,

• sowed
• planted

• weeds among the
• tares among the

• wheat and
• wheat, and

• then left.
• made off.

Matthew 13:26

• When the plants
• When the crop
• Later, the wheat
• When the wheat

• sprouted and
• grew and
• grew, and

• heads of
• bore

• grain
• grain,

• then the weeds also

• appeared.
• grew.

Matthew 13:27

• “The servants of the
• The servants of the
• And the servants of the
• So the slaves of the
• The slaves of the

• owner
• master of the house
• householder
• landowner

• came and said to

• him, “
• him, ‘

• Sir,
• Master,

• did you not

• sow
• plant

• good seed in your

• field?
• field? How
• field? Where
• field? Where,

• then
• Then how

• does it have

• weeds?’
• tares?’

Matthew 13:28

• “An enemy
• “‘An enemy

• did this,’
• did this,”

• he replied. “The servants

• said to
• asked

• him,
• him, “
• him, ‘

• Do
• do
• Then do

• you want us to go and

• gather
• pull up the
• pull
• weed

• them up?’
• them?’
• weeds?”
• weeds?’

Matthew 13:29

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 13:30

• Let both
• Let
• Let the

• grow
• them grow
• them both grow
• weeds and the wheat grow

• together until the

• harvest, and at
• harvest; and at

• harvest time I

• will
• ’ll

• tell the
• say to the

• reapers, ‘
• reapers,
• reapers:
• workers to

• gather the
• Gather the

• weeds
• darnel

• first and
• first, and

• tie
• bind

• them in
• it in
• them into

• bundles to be burned, but gather the

• wheat into
• wheat in

• my

• barn.
• barn.”

• ””’
• ”’

Matthew 13:31

• He

• put another
• presented another

• parable to
• parable before

• them. “The
• them, ‘The
• them: ‘The
• them: “The

• kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a mustard

• seed that a
• seed, which a
• seed which a
• seed that

• man
• someone
• person

• took and
• took, and

• sowed in
• planted in
• planted in a

• his field:
• his field.
• his field,
• his field;
• field.

Matthew 13:32

• which indeed

• is the
• is

• smallest of all
• smallest of all the

• seeds. But when
• seeds; but when
• seeds, but when

• it

• has
• is

• grown,
• grown

• it

• is
• is the

• larger than the
• largest of
• largest of all
• larger than all the
• greater than the
• taller than the

• garden plants and
• herbs, and
• herbs and
• garden herbs and

• becomes a tree, so that the

• birds of the
• birds in the

• air
• sky

• come and

• nest in
• make nests in

• its

• branches.’
• branches.”
• branches.
• branches. ”’

Matthew 13:33

• He
• Jesus
• Then Jesus

• told
• spoke to

• them another

• parable, ‘The
• parable: “The
• parable: ‘The
• parable. “The

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like
• is like the

• yeast that a
• leaven which a
• leaven, which a
• yeast which a
• yeast, which a

• woman

• took and
• took, and

• hid in three
• put into three
• mixed with three
• mixed in with three

• measures of
• pecks of

• flour, until
• flour until
• flour till
• flour, till
• flour. The
• meal, till
• meal till

• it
• yeast

• was all
• was
• makes all the

• leavened.”
• leavened.
• leavened.’
• dough.”

Matthew 13:34

• Jesus used stories to tell all these things to the

• people.
• people;

• He
• he

• always used stories to teach them.

Matthew 13:35

• This was to
• that it might be

• fulfill what
• fulfilled what
• fulfilled which

• was
• had been

• spoken through the
• spoken by the

• prophet,
• prophet—‘
• prophet:
• prophet: “

• I
• saying, “I
• saying: “I

• will open

• my
• My

• mouth in

• parables.
• parables,
• parables;

• Iwill

• utter
• announce what

• has
• things
• things kept
• things that

• hidden since the
• been hidden since the
• secret from the
• been hidden from the

• foundation of the
• creation of the
• beginning of the

• world.”
• world.’
• world.

Matthew 13:36

• Then,
• Then

• leaving the crowds, he

• went into the
• went

• house.
• house; and
• house: and
• house. And
• house, and

• his
• His

• disciples
• followers

• came to
• approached

• him, and
• Him and
• him and
• Him
• Him.
• Him,
• him,
• him.
• him

• said, ‘
• said: “
• said, “
• saying,
• saying, “
• saying, ‘
• said, “Please

• explain to
• Explain to
• Tell

• us the

• parable of the
• meaning of the story about the
• story of the
• parable about the

• weeds in the
• darnel in the
• tares of the
• weeds of the

• field.
• field.’
• field.”
• field means.”
• field to us.”

Matthew 13:37

• He answered, “The
• Jesus answered, ‘The
• Jesus answered: The
• Jesus answered, “The
• He
• He answered, “
• He answered,

• one who
• He Who
• He who
• man who

• sows the
• sowed the
• plants the
• planted the

• good

• seed
• seed in the field

• is the Son of

• Man;
• man.
• Man.

Matthew 13:38

• the field
• The field
• and the field

• is the

• world, and the
• world and the
• world. And the
• world; and the
• world, the
• world. The
• world; the
• world; and as for the

• good

• seed
• seeds
• seed, these

• are the
• stands for the
• means the

• people who belong to the

• kingdom. The
• kingdom; the
• Kingdom; the
• Kingdom. The
• kingdom; and the

• weeds are the people who belong to the

• evil one,
• Evil One;
• Evil One.
• evil one;
• evil one.

Matthew 13:39

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 13:40

• “The weeds
• The weeds
• “Just as the weeds
• Just as the weeds
• As the weeds
• “As the weeds
• Therefore, just as the weeds
• Therefore just as the weeds
• Just as weeds

• are

• gathered and
• pulled up and
• gathered up and
• collected and

• burned in the
• burned with
• burned up with

• fire; so
• fire, so
• fire.

• it
• It
• will

• will
• it

• be at the

• end of the
• end of
• close of the
• end of this

• age.
• age:
• time.
• world.

Matthew 13:41

• the Son of
• The son of
• The Son of

• Man
• man

• will

• send
• send out

• his
• His

• angels, and
• angels and
• angels.

• they
• They

• will

• gather out of
• gather from
• collect out of

• his
• His

• kingdom everything that
• Kingdom everything that
• kingdom all
• Kingdom all
• kingdom all who

• causes
• causes of
• things that cause
• cause

• sin and all who
• sin and all
• sin and those who

• do evil.
• do evil,
• evildoers.
• evildoers,

Matthew 13:42

• They will throw
• And they will throw
• and they will throw
• and throw
• The angels will throw

• them into the
• them into a

• fiery
• blazing

• furnace,’ where there
• furnace, where there
• furnace where there

• will be

• weeping and
• wailing and

• gnashing of
• grinding of

• teeth!
• teeth.

Matthew 13:43

• Then the righteous will

• shine like the
• shine, like the

• sun, in the
• sun in the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• their

• Father.
• Father. The

• He who
• Anyone who
• one who

• has

• ears,
• ears

• let
• should
• then

• listen.’
• listen.
• listen!
• listen!”
• him hear!
• him hear.
• hear.
• hear.”
• hear!

Matthew 13:44

• “The Kingdom of
• “The kingdom of
• The kingdom of
• ‘The kingdom of
• “Again, the Kingdom of
• “Again, the kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a
• is like

• treasure
• treasure,

• hidden in a
• buried in a
• hidden in the

• field, which a
• field, that a
• field that a
• field. When a
• field. A
• field, which

• man
• person
• someone

• found and

• hid;
• hid
• covered up.
• covered up;

• then in
• Then in

• his

• joy
• joy,
• joy over

• he
• it he

• goes and
• went and

• sells all that he

• has and
• has, and
• had, and
• had and

• buys that
• bought that
• bought the

• field.
• field.’

Matthew 13:45

• “Again, the Kingdom of
• ‘Again, the kingdom of
• Again, the kingdom of
• “Again, the kingdom of
• Again the kingdom of
• “Also, the Kingdom of
• “Also, the kingdom of
• The kingdom of
• ‘The kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a
• is like this. A

• merchant
• merchant in
• trader who was

• looking for
• search of
• seeking
• searching for

• fine
• goodly
• choice

• pearls:
• pearls;
• pearls.
• pearls,

Matthew 13:46

• When he
• when he
• One day he

• found one
• found a

• very valuable

• pearl.
• pearl,

• He
• he

• went and
• goes and

• sold
• sells

• everything
• everything that

• he

• had, and
• had and
• has and
• has, and
• possessed, and
• possessed and
• had to
• owned and

• bought
• buys
• buy that

• it.’
• it!
• it.
• pearl.

Matthew 13:47

• ‘Again the
• “Again, the
• ‘Again, the
• “Also, the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a

• net that
• dragnet, that
• dragnet that
• net.
• net
• net which

• was cast into the
• was thrown into the
• was let down into the
• thrown into the
• was put into the

• sea and
• sea, and
• lake and
• sea. It

• caught
• gathered

• fish of every
• many different kinds of

• kind,
• kind;
• kind.
• fish.

Matthew 13:48

• When it
• when it
• When the net
• which, when it
• which when it
• and when it

• was
• is

• full,
• full
• full, the
• filled,
• filled

• they
• fishermen
• men
• it

• pulled
• dragged
• hauled
• drew

• it
• it to
• it up onto the

• ashore, sat down, and

• put the
• gathered the
• sorted the
• put all the

• good fish into
• good into
• good fish in

• baskets but
• baskets. But
• baskets, but
• containers, and
• containers and
• vessels but
• vessels, but
• baskets and
• containers but
• containers, but
• baskets.

• threw the
• threw out the
• threw away the
• Then they threw away the
• they threw

• bad fish.

Matthew 13:49

• It
• So it
• This is how it
• That is the way it
• Thus it

• will

• be at the
• be this way at the

• end of the
• end of
• close of the

• age; the
• age. The
• age: the
• time. The
• time: the
• world. The

• angels will

• come and
• go out and

• separate the

• wicked from the
• evil people from the
• wicked from among the
• evil from the

• righteous
• righteous,
• good
• good,
• good people.

Matthew 13:50

• and throw
• and will throw
• and ‘will throw
• and cast
• They will throw the

• them into the
• evil people into the

• fiery
• blazing

• furnace. In that
• furnace, where
• furnace.

• place there will be weeping and gnashing of

• teeth.’
• teeth.”
• teeth!
• teeth.

Matthew 13:51

• “Have
• ‘Have
• Have
• Do
• “Do
• Jesus said to them, “Have

• you

• understood all these
• understand all these
• understood all this?”
• understood all this?’

• things?”

• They
• Jesus asked. “Yes,” they

• answered, “Yes.”
• answered, ‘Yes.’
• said to him, “Yes.”
• said to Him, “Yes.”
• answered.
• replied.
• said, ‘Yes.’

Matthew 13:52

• He
• And he
• Then he
• Then He
• Then Jesus
• So he

• said to them, “

• Therefore every
• So every

• scribe who
• teacher of the law who

• has

• been
• become a

• disciple in the
• disciple of the
• taught about the
• trained for the
• instructed in the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• heaven,
• Heaven
• heaven

• is like a
• is like the

• householder who
• head of a household, who
• head of a household who
• owner of a house who
• master of a house who
• master of a house, who

• brings out of
• brings from

• his treasure what is new and what is

• old.’
• old.”

Matthew 13:53

• When Jesus had
• When Jesus

• finished these
• finished

• parables
• parables,
• telling these stories,
• teaching with these stories,

• He
• he

• left
• moved on from there.
• departed from there.
• left there.
• went away from there.
• left that place,
• left that place

Matthew 13:54

• He came to
• He went to
• and, coming to
• and coming to

• his
• His

• hometown
• hometown,
• hometown.
• own country
• own country,
• hometown and

• He
• he
• began to

• taught the
• taught
• teach
• began teaching the

• people in
• them in

• their synagogue, so that they were

• astonished and
• astonished, and
• amazed and
• amazed.
• surprised and

• said, ‘Where
• said, “Where
• They said, “Where

• did this
• did
• does

• Man
• man
• he

• get this

• wisdom and these
• wisdom, and these
• wisdom and
• wisdom and this

• mighty
• miraculous
• power to do

• miracles?”
• miracles?
• powers?
• works?

Matthew 13:55

• is
• Is
• “Is

• not this the
• n’t this the
• not the
• n’t he the

• carpenter’s

• Son?
• son?

• is
• Is

• not
• n’t

• his
• His

• mother called

• Mary, and
• Mary and
• Mary? And
• Mary? and
• Mary.
• Mary,

• his
• His

• brothers—
• brothers,
• brothers
• brethren,
• brethren

• James,
• James, and
• James and

• Joseph,
• Joseph, and
• Joseph and
• Joses,

• Simon and
• Simon, and

• Judas.
• Judas?

Matthew 13:56

• And his
• And His

• sisters,
• sisters

• are they
• are
• live

• not all with
• here with

• us? Where then
• us? Where, then,
• us. Where then
• us? Where
• us. Where
• us? Where,
• us? So where
• us. So where

• did this
• did
• does

• man
• He
• he

• get all these things?”

Matthew 13:57

• and they
• And they
• So they
• They

• were
• took

• offense at
• offended by
• offended at

• him. But
• Him. But
• him.

• Jesus said to

• them, ’A
• them, “A
• them, ‘A
• them, “

• prophet
• Prophets

• is
• are

• not without

• honor, except in
• honor except in

• his own
• his
• their own

• hometown and in
• country, and in
• country and in
• town or in

• his own
• their own

• house,’
• house.
• house:’
• house.”
• house!”
• household.”
• family.’
• family.”
• home.”

Matthew 13:58

• and he
• And he
• And He
• He
• Jesus

• did

• not
• n’t

• do
• work
• perform
• many

• many
• mighty

• miracles
• mighty works

• there, because of
• there because of

• their

• unbelief.
• lack of faith.
• want of faith.