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| 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house, and sat beside the sea.
| | 1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. |
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| | 2 In the midst of its street, and on either side of the river, there was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit and yielded its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. |
| 2 And large crowds were gathered
| | 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. |
| | | 4 And they shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. |
| about Him, so that He got into a
| | 5 And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle or light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. |
| | | 6 And he said to me, "These sayings are faithful and true." And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things that must shortly be done. |
| boat and sat; and the entire crowd
| | 7 "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book." |
| | | 8 And I, John, saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. |
| | | 9 Then he said to me, "See that you do not do it. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book. Worship God." |
| stood on the shore.
| | 10 And he said to me, "Do not seal the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. |
| 3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
| | 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still." |
| 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
| | 12 "And, behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according to what his work is. |
| 5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
| | 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." |
| 6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
| | 14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city. |
| 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them.
| | 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie. |
| 8 But others fell into good ground and bore fruit: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
| | 16 "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star." |
| 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
| | 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let him who hears say, "Come." And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. |
| 10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
| | 18 For I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man adds to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book. |
| 11 He answered and said to them, “For it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
| | 19 And if any man takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things that are written in this book. |
| 12 For whoever has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
| | 20 He who testifies these things says, "Surely I come quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. |
| 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, for seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
| | 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. |
| 14 And in them the prophecy of
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| Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you will hear and will not understand, and seeing you will see and will not perceive;
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| 15 for the hearts of this people have grown dull, their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts and would be converted, so that I should heal them.’
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| 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear;
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| 17 for truly, I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things that you see, and did not see them, and hear those things that you hear, and did not hear them.
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| 18 “Therefore hear the parable of the sower:
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| 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one which received seed by the wayside.
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| 20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
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| 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
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| 22 Now he who received seed a-
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| mong the thorns is he who hears the word, and the worries of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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| 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who also bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
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| 24 He put before them another parable, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
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| 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
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| 26 So when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
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| 27 So the servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
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| 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
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| 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
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| 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
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| 31 He put before them another par-
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| able, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, that a man took and sowed in his field,
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| 32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
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| 33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid inside three measures of flour until it was all leavened.”
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| 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables; and He did not speak to them without a parable,
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| 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet,
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| saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things that have been kept secret since the
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| foundation of the world.”
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| 36 Then Jesus sent the crowd away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
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| 37 He replied and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
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| 38 The field is the world, the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one.
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| 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
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| 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
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| 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that cause to stumble, and those who practice iniquity,
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| 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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| 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
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| 44 “Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man finds, he hides; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
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| 45 “Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant man seeking choice pearls,
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| 46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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| 47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind,
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| 48 which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.
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| 49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just,
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| 50 and will throw them into the furnace of fire. There will be weep-
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| ing and gnashing of teeth.”
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| 51 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
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| 52 Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who is instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”
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| 53 Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that He departed from there.
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| 54 And when He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
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| 55 Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
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| 56 And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?”
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| 57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
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| 58 So He did not do many mighty works there because of their un-belief.
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1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of its street, and on either side of the river, there was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit and yielded its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
4 And they shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle or light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, "These sayings are faithful and true." And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things that must shortly be done.
7 "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book."
8 And I, John, saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 Then he said to me, "See that you do not do it. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book. Worship God."
10 And he said to me, "Do not seal the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still."
12 "And, behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according to what his work is.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
16 "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star."
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let him who hears say, "Come." And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man adds to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
19 And if any man takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things that are written in this book.
20 He who testifies these things says, "Surely I come quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.