²⁴ Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

⁴⁷ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind,

²⁰ And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?

¹ `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

³³ Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

¹ `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

² `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

¹⁸ And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

²⁶ And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

²⁷ and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

²⁸ for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

²⁹ and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

³⁰ And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

³³ `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

²³ `Because of this was the reign of the heavens likened to a man, a king, who did will to take reckoning with his servants,

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

⁴⁵ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

³⁷ And he answering said to them, `He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,

³¹ Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,

¹⁹ Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.

²³ And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,

² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

¹² And Samson saith to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me `in' the seven days of the banquet, and have found `it' out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

¹³ and if ye are not able to declare `it' to me, then ye have given to me thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments.' And they say to him, `Put forth thy riddle, and we hear it!'

⁵ because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

²³ being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

² `Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,

¹³ And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

¹⁰ For rule `is' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,