Matthew 13:1-15 ▼

1 The same daye wet Iesus out of ye house and sat by the seesyde

2 and moch people resorted vnto him so gretly yt he wet and sat in a shippe and all the people stode on ye shoore.

3 And he spake many thynges to the in similitudes sayinge: Beholde ye sower wet forth to sowe.

4 And as he sowed some fell by ye wayessyde and the fowlles came and devoured it vp.

5 Some fell apo stony groude where it had not moche erth and a none it sproge vp because it had no depth of erth:

6 and when ye sunne was vp it cauht heet and for lake of rotynge wyddred awaye.

7 Some fell amoge thornes and the thornes sproge vp and chooked it.

8 Parte fell in good groud and brought forth good frute: some an hudred fold some sixtie fold some thyrty folde.

9 Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.

10 And the disciples came and sayde to him: Why speakest thou to the in parables?

11 He answered and sayde vnto them: it is geve vnto you to knowe ye secretes of the kyngdome of heve but to the it is not geve.

12 For whosoever hath to him shall be geven: and he shall have aboundance. But whosoever hath not: fro hym shalbe takyn awaye even that he hath.

13 Therfore speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se they se not: and hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde.

14 And in the is fulfilled ye Prophesie of Esayas which prophesie sayth: with the eares ye shall heare and shall not vnderstonde and with the eyes ye shall se and shall not perceave.

15 For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse and their eares were dull of herynge and their eyes have they closed lest they shulde se with their eyes and heare with their eares and shuld vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld tourne that I myght heale them.