\v 1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd gathered around him, so he stepped into a boat in the sea, and sat down. The whole crowd was beside the sea on the shore.
\v 2 And he taught them many things in parables, and he said to them in his teaching,
\v 8 Other seed feel into good soil and it produced grain while growing up and increasing, and some brought forth thirty times as much, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
\v 9 And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!"
\v 15 Some are the ones that fall beside the road, where the word was sown. And when they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
\v 16 And some are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
\v 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.
\v 18 And others are the ones sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
\v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things, enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
\v 20 And those are the ones sown in the good soil. Who hear the word and receive it and produce fruit; some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
\v 21 Jesus said to them, "Do you bring a lamp inside the house to put it under a basket, or under the bed? You bring it in and you put it on a lampstand.
\v 24 He said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear, for the measure you use, is the measure you will receive; and even more you will get.
\v 25 Because whoever has, to him will be given more, and whoever has not, from him will be taken away even what he has."
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\v 26 Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is like a man who sows his seed on the ground.
\v 27 He sleeps and gets up, night and day; and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
\v 28 The earth bears grain by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the mature grain in the ear.
\v 29 But when the grain is ripe, immediately he puts out the sickle because the harvest has come."
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\v 30 He said, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God and what parable can we use to explain it?
\v 31 It is like a mustard seed, which when it is sown it is the smallest of all the seeds sown that lay upon the ground.
\v 32 Yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the garden plants. It puts out great branches, so even the birds of heaven can make their nests under its shade."
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\v 33 With many parables like this he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to hear.
\v 34 But he did not speak to them without a parable. But in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
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\v 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."
\v 36 So they left the crowd. The disciples took Jesus along with them, since he was already in the boat. Other boats were with him also.
\v 37 There began a violent storm with wind, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was about to be full of water.
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\v 38 But Jesus himself was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him up, saying, "Teacher, do you not care that we are about to die?"
\v 39 He awoke, rebuked the wind. and said to the sea, "Peace, be still." And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
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\v 40 He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
\v 41 They were filled with great fear and they said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
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