Popular Bible Verses from MAT 13

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But the seed sown on good, receptive soil represents the person who hears the word and understands it with genuine faith. He indeed produces a crop of spiritual fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown—according to individual faithfulness."

The seed sown among thorns represents the person who hears the word and appears to receive it, but the worries and anxieties of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth and material pursuits choke the word, making it unfruitful and preventing spiritual growth and productivity.

When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it or receive it with faith, the evil one—Satan—comes immediately and snatches away what was sown in his heart like birds devouring seed. This is the seed sown along the hard path—representing a hardened heart.

The seed sown on rocky ground represents the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy and emotional enthusiasm. But he has no deep root in himself—no genuine conversion or depth of character—and lasts only a short time in apparent faith. When trouble or persecution comes because of identifying with the word, he quickly falls away and abandons his profession.

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field—of immeasurable value. When a man discovered it, he hid it again to secure it. Then in his joy at finding such wealth, he went and sold everything he owned and bought that field to possess the treasure—the kingdom is worth any sacrifice.

Still other seed fell on good, fertile soil that was deep and receptive, and it produced a crop—some yielding a hundred times what was sown, some sixty times the amount, and some thirty times what was planted.

Let both grow together until the harvest at the end of the age. At harvest time I will tell the reapers—the angels: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned in judgment, then gather the wheat into my barn for eternal safety.'"