1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. 2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." 9 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 12 that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’"

13 He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

21 He said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? 22 For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light. 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

24 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

26 He said, "God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. 28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

30 He said, "How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 32 yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side." 36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?"

39 He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"

41 They were greatly afraid and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

1 耶稣又在海边教导人。有一大群人聚集到他那里， 因此他上船坐下来。船在海中， 群众都朝着海站在岸上。

2 他用比喻教训他们许多事， 在教训中他说：

3 "你们听着！ 有一个撒种的出去撒种，

4 撒的时候， 有的落在路旁， 小鸟飞来就吃掉了。

5 有的落在泥土不多的石地上， 因为泥土不深， 很快就长起来。

6 但太阳一出来， 就把它晒干， 又因为没有根就枯萎了。

7 有的落在荆棘里， 荆棘长起来， 把它挤住， 它就结不出果实来。

8 有的落在好土里， 就生长繁茂， 结出果实， 有三十倍的、有六十倍的、有一百倍的。"

9 耶稣又说： "有耳可听的， 就应当听。"

10 耶稣独自一人的时候， 那些经常跟着他的人和十二门徒， 来问这些比喻的意义。

11 耶稣对他们说： " 神的国的奥秘， 只给你们知道， 但对于外人， 一切都用比喻，

12 叫他们‘看是看见了， 却不领悟， 听是听见了， 却不明白， 免得他们回转过来， 得到赦免。’"

13 耶稣又对他们说： "你们不明白这个比喻， 怎能明白一切比喻呢？

14 撒种的人所撒的就是道。

15 那撒在路旁的， 就是人听了道， 撒但立刻来， 把撒在他心里的道夺去。

16 照样， 那撒在石地上的， 就是人听了道， 立刻欢欢喜喜地接受了；

17 可是他们里面没有根， 只是暂时的； 一旦为道遭遇患难， 受到迫害， 就立刻跌倒了。

18 那撒在荆棘里的， 是指另一些人； 他们听了道，

19 然而今世的忧虑、财富的迷惑， 以及种种的欲望， 接连进来， 把道挤住， 就结不出果实来。

20 那撒在好土里的， 就是人听了道， 接受了， 并且结出果实， 有三十倍的、有六十倍的、有一百倍的。"

21 耶稣又对他们说： "灯难道是拿来放在量器底下或床底下的吗？它不是该放在灯台上吗？

22 因为没有什么隐藏的事不被显明出来， 没有什么掩盖的事不被揭露的。

23 有耳可听的， 就应当听。"

24 耶稣又对他们说： "要留心你们所听到的， 你们用什么尺度量给人， 神也要用什么尺度量给你们， 并且要超过尺度给你们。

25 因为那有的， 还要给他； 那没有的， 就算他有什么也要拿去。"

26 耶稣说： " 神的国好像人在地里撒种，

27 他夜里睡觉， 白天起来， 种子发芽生长， 自己也不知道怎么会这样的。

28 地生五谷是自然的， 先长苗， 后吐穗， 最后穗上结满了子粒。

29 庄稼熟了， 就派人用镰刀割下， 因为收成的时候到了。"

30 又说： "我们要把 神的国比作什么呢？我们可以用什么比喻来形容它呢？

31 它好像一粒芥菜种， 刚种下去的时候， 比地上的一切种子都小，

32 种下以后， 生长起来， 却比一切蔬菜都大， 长出大枝子， 甚至天空的飞鸟都可以在它的荫下搭窝。"

33 耶稣用许多这样的比喻， 照着他们所能听懂的， 向他们讲道；

34 不用比喻， 就不对他们讲。只有单独和自己的门徒在一起的时候， 才把一切解释给他们听。

35 当天黄昏， 耶稣对门徒说： "我们渡到海那边去吧。"

36 门徒离开群众， 耶稣已经在船上， 他们就载他过去， 也有别的船和他同去。

37 忽然起了狂风， 波浪不断地打进船来， 舱里积满了水。

38 耶稣却在船尾靠着枕头睡着了。门徒把他叫醒， 对他说： "老师， 我们要死了， 你不管吗？"

39 耶稣起来， 斥责了风， 又对海说： "不要作声！ 安静吧！ "风就停止， 大大地平静了。

40 然后对他们说： "为什么这样胆怯呢？你们怎么没有信心呢？"

41 门徒非常惧怕， 彼此说： "这到底是谁， 连风和海都听从他？"