Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field.
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- WEB He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
- KJV Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
- BSB Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
- NKJV Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
- NASB Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
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Jesus tells another parable: the kingdom is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
Overview
This Parable of the Weeds addresses the coexistence of good and evil until the final judgment. The man sowing good seed represents Christ at work in the world. It prepares for a lesson on patience and the certainty of God's final separation.
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- Matt 25:1“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Matt 13:47“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
- Matt 20:1“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- Matt 22:2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
- Matt 13:37He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
- Luke 13:20Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?
- Matt 13:33He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
- Luke 13:18He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?
- Mark 4:26–30He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
- Matt 13:31He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
- 1 Pet 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
- Matt 18:23Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
- Matt 13:19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
- Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
- Matt 21:33“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Matt 13:44–45“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
- Matt 4:23Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
- Col 1:5because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
- Ezek 17:2“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
- Judg 14:12–13Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
- Isa 28:10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
- Isa 28:13Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
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