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Matthew 13:1¹On that day after Jesus went out of the house, he sat by the lake.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 8:4-10 Matt 13:1-15 Mark 4:1-12 Matt 13:36

Matthew 13:2²And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 5:3 Gen 49:10 Luke 8:4-8 Mark 4:1 Matt 15:30 Matt 4:25

Matthew 13:3³He told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:2-9 Mark 4:13 Ps 78:2 2 Sam 12:1-7 Ezek 24:3-14 Luke 8:5-8 Mark 4:33 Matt 13:10-13 Matt 13:34-35 Matt 13:53

Matthew 13:4⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:18-19

Matthew 13:5⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 36:26 Ezek 11:19 Zech 7:12 Amos 6:12 Matt 13:20

Matthew 13:6⁶But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:11-12 Matt 13:21 Luke 8:13 Col 1:23 Eph 3:17 Isa 49:10 Col 2:7 Matt 7:26-27 Rev 7:16

Matthew 13:7⁷Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:18-19 Jer 4:3-4 Gen 3:18 Matt 13:22

Matthew 13:8⁸But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 8:15 Gen 26:12 John 15:8 Matt 13:23 Gal 5:22-23 Phil 1:11 Rom 7:18

Matthew 13:9⁹The one who has ears had better listen!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 11:15 Rev 2:11 Rev 2:17 Rev 2:7 Mark 4:23 Mark 4:9 Mark 7:14-15 Matt 13:16 Rev 13:8-9 Rev 2:29

Matthew 13:10¹⁰Then the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:33-34 Mark 4:10

Matthew 13:11¹¹He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:9-10 1 Cor 2:14 Matt 19:11 Jas 1:5 1 John 2:27 1 John 2:20 Col 1:26-27 Eph 1:9 Eph 5:32 Isa 35:8

Matthew 13:12¹²For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 25:29 Mark 4:24-25 Luke 8:18 Luke 19:24-26 John 15:2-5 Matt 21:43 Rev 2:5 Isa 5:4-7 Luke 16:25 Luke 10:42

Matthew 13:13¹³For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 12:2 Jer 5:21 Isa 42:18-20 2 Cor 4:3-4 Deut 29:3-4 John 3:19-20 Matt 13:16 Isa 44:18 John 9:39-41 Mark 8:17-18

Matthew 13:14¹⁴And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: ‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 6:9-10 Ezek 12:2 2 Cor 3:14 Luke 8:10 Acts 28:25-27 Mark 4:12 John 12:39-40 Rom 11:8-10

Matthew 13:15¹⁵For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 6:10 Mark 4:12 Zech 7:11 John 8:43-44 2 Tim 2:25-26 Isa 29:10-12 Jer 17:14 Mal 4:2 Heb 5:11 Ps 119:70

Matthew 13:16¹⁶“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 10:23-24 Eph 1:17-18 Matt 16:17 John 20:29 Acts 26:18 2 Cor 4:6 Luke 2:29-30 Matt 5:3-11

Matthew 13:17¹⁷For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:56 Heb 11:13 1 Pet 1:10-12 Luke 10:24 Eph 3:5-6 Heb 11:39-40

Matthew 13:18¹⁸“So listen to the parable of the sower:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 8:11-15 Matt 13:11-12 Mark 4:13-20

Matthew 13:19¹⁹When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 8:11-15 Heb 2:1 Matt 13:38 1 John 5:18 Matt 4:23 1 John 3:12 1 John 2:13-14 Acts 17:32 John 8:43 Mark 4:15

Matthew 13:20²⁰The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 33:31-32 Ps 106:12-13 John 5:35 2 Chr 24:2 Isa 58:2 Ps 78:34-37 1 Sam 11:13-15 2 Chr 24:14 2 Chr 24:6 Acts 8:13

Matthew 13:21²¹But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 11:6 2 Pet 1:8-9 Eph 3:17 Hos 6:4 Job 19:28 John 15:5-7 Prov 12:3 Job 27:8-10 John 12:25-26 Mark 13:12-13

Matthew 13:22²²The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:17 Luke 8:14 1 Tim 6:9-10 Mark 4:18-19 Luke 12:15 2 Tim 4:10 Eccl 5:10-11 1 John 2:15-16 Ps 52:7 Luke 12:29-30

Matthew 13:23²³But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Phil 1:11 Matt 12:33 John 15:16 Gal 5:22-23 John 15:1-8 Matt 13:8 Ps 92:13-15 Col 1:6 Col 1:10 Luke 13:9

Matthew 13:24²⁴He presented them with another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 25:1 Matt 13:47 Matt 20:1 Matt 22:2 Matt 13:37 Luke 13:20 Luke 13:18 Mark 4:26-30 Matt 13:33 1 Pet 1:23

Matthew 13:25²⁵But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:8 2 Pet 2:1 Acts 20:30-31 Matt 13:39 Heb 12:15 Rev 12:9 Matt 25:5 2 Cor 11:13-15 2 Tim 4:3-5 Isa 56:9-10

Matthew 13:26²⁶When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:26-29

Matthew 13:27²⁷So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the darnel come from?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 16:17 2 Cor 6:1 2 Cor 5:18-20 1 Cor 12:28-29 1 Cor 16:10 2 Cor 6:4 1 Cor 1:11-13 1 Cor 15:12-34 Eph 4:11-12 Gal 3:1-3

Matthew 13:28²⁸He said, ‘An enemy has done this!’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather it?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 5:3-7 1 Thess 5:14 Luke 9:49-54 2 Cor 2:6-11 Jude 1:22-23

Matthew 13:29²⁹But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Matthew 13:30³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 3:12 1 Tim 5:24 1 Cor 4:5 John 15:6 Mal 3:18-4:1 Matt 13:39-43 Matt 25:32 Luke 3:17 Matt 25:41 Matt 25:6-13

Matthew 13:31³¹He gave them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 13:18-19 Mark 4:30-32 Matt 17:20 Luke 17:6 Matt 13:24 Luke 20:9

Matthew 13:32³²It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 31:6 Dan 4:12 Ezek 17:23-24 Acts 21:20 Dan 2:44-45 Rom 15:18-19 Zech 8:20-23 Dan 2:34-35 Ps 104:12 Zech 4:10

Matthew 13:33³³He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 5:9 1 Cor 5:6-7 Phil 2:13-15 Luke 13:21 Prov 4:18 Gen 18:6 1 Thess 5:23-24 2 Pet 3:18 Hos 6:3 Job 17:9

Matthew 13:34³⁴Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:25 Mark 4:33-34 Matt 13:13

Matthew 13:35³⁵This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:2 Eph 3:9 1 Pet 1:20-21 Rom 16:25-26 1 Cor 2:7 John 17:24 Amos 3:7 Col 1:25-26 Matt 25:34 Eph 3:5

Matthew 13:36³⁶Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel in the field.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:17-20 Matt 13:11 Mark 6:45 Mark 7:17 Mark 8:9 Matt 13:1 Matt 15:15-16 Matt 9:28 Matt 14:22 Matt 15:39

Matthew 13:37³⁷He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:5-7 Acts 1:8 Luke 10:16 Matt 13:24 Matt 13:27 Matt 13:41 John 13:20 John 20:21 Matt 10:40 Matt 16:13-16

Matthew 13:38³⁸The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:44 Acts 13:10 Phil 3:18-19 1 John 3:8-10 1 Pet 1:23 Gen 3:15 Jas 1:18 Matt 13:19 1 John 3:2 Col 1:6

Matthew 13:39³⁹and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:49 Rev 14:15-19 Matt 25:31 Joel 3:13 Rev 19:20 2 Thess 1:7-10 Matt 13:25 Matt 24:3 Rev 12:9 Rev 13:14

Matthew 13:40⁴⁰As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:39

Matthew 13:41⁴¹The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 24:31 2 Pet 2:1-2 Matt 18:7 Rev 21:27 Heb 1:14 Heb 1:6-7 Matt 13:49 Rev 5:11-12 Rom 2:16 Rom 2:8-9

Matthew 13:42⁴²They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:50 Luke 16:23-24 Matt 8:12 Rev 20:10 Rev 20:14-15 Rev 19:20 Dan 3:6 Mark 9:43-49 Ps 21:9 Rev 14:10

Matthew 13:43⁴³Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:3 Luke 12:32 1 Cor 15:41-54 Matt 11:15 Matt 25:34 Rev 21:22-23 Rev 21:3-5 Jas 2:5 Matt 25:36 1 Cor 15:58

Matthew 13:44⁴⁴“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 2:2-5 Col 2:3 Matt 6:21 Phil 3:7-9 Luke 14:33 Heb 11:24-26 Matt 19:29 Prov 16:16 Prov 23:23 Luke 18:23-24

Matthew 13:45⁴⁵“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 8:10-11 Matt 16:26 Prov 3:13-18 Job 28:18 Matt 13:24 Prov 8:18-20 Eccl 12:13 Matt 22:5 Ps 39:6-7 Ps 4:6-7

Matthew 13:46⁴⁶When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 18:28-30 Eph 3:8 Acts 20:24 Col 2:3 Matt 13:44 Prov 2:4 1 Cor 3:21-23 1 John 5:11-12 Isa 33:6 Mark 10:28-31

Matthew 13:47⁴⁷“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:6 2 Tim 3:2-5 Matt 22:9-10 1 John 4:1-6 2 Tim 4:3-4 Mark 1:17 1 Cor 10:1-12 2 Cor 12:20-21 2 Pet 2:13-22 Matt 13:26-30

Matthew 13:48⁴⁸When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:30 Matt 3:12 Matt 13:40-43

Matthew 13:49⁴⁹It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteousCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 20:12-15 Matt 13:39 Matt 24:31 2 Thess 1:7-10 Matt 22:12-14 Matt 25:19-33 Matt 25:5-12

Matthew 13:50⁵⁰and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 13:27-28 Matt 13:42 Matt 8:12 Rev 14:10-11 Matt 24:50-51 Rev 16:10-11

Matthew 13:51⁵¹“Have you understood all these things?” They replied, “Yes.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:34 Matt 13:11 Matt 13:19 1 John 5:20 Acts 8:30-31 Luke 9:44-45 Mark 7:18 Mark 8:17-18 Matt 15:17 Matt 16:11

Matthew 13:52⁵²Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 2:7-8 Titus 1:9 2 Tim 3:16-17 2 Cor 3:4-6 Matt 12:35 Titus 2:6-7 1 Tim 3:15-16 Ezra 7:10 Prov 16:20-24 Ezra 7:21

Matthew 13:53⁵³Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:28 Mark 4:33-35

Matthew 13:54⁵⁴Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:15-16 Matt 7:28 Mark 6:1-6 Luke 4:16-30 Matt 2:23 Matt 4:23 Ps 22:22 Acts 13:46 Acts 28:17-28 Acts 4:13

Matthew 13:55⁵⁵Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary? And aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:42 Mark 6:3 Luke 3:23 Luke 4:22 Mark 15:47-16:1 Gal 1:19 John 19:25 Luke 24:10 Isa 49:7 Isa 53:2-3

Matthew 13:56⁵⁶And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Matthew 13:57⁵⁷And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:44 Luke 4:24 Matt 11:6 Isa 53:3 Isa 49:7 John 6:61 1 Cor 1:23-28 Acts 7:51-52 Isa 8:14 John 6:42

Matthew 13:58⁵⁸And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 6:5-6 Rom 11:20 Heb 3:12-19 Luke 4:25-29

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