diff --git a/41-MAT/13.usfm b/41-MAT/13.usfm index e8f1683a..509c30ec 100644 --- a/41-MAT/13.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/13.usfm @@ -2,10 +2,8 @@ \s5 \c 13 - - \p -\v 1 That same day Jesus, along with the disciples, left the house where he was teaching and went to the shore of the Sea of Galilee. He sat down there, +\v 1 That same day Jesus, along with the disciples, left the house where he was teaching and went to the shore of the sea of Galilee. He sat down there, \v 2 and a very large crowd gathered around him to listen to him teach. In order to have a little room, he got into a boat and sat down to teach them. The crowd stood on the shore and listened to him. \s5 @@ -19,8 +17,6 @@ \v 8 But other seeds fell on good soil, and the plants grew and produced a lot of grain. Some plants produced one hundred times as many seeds as were planted. Some plants produced sixty times as much. Some plants produced thirty times as much. \v 9 If you want to understand this, you should consider carefully what I have just said." - - \s5 \p \v 10 The disciples approached Jesus later and asked him, "Why do you use parables when you speak to the crowd?" @@ -51,8 +47,6 @@ because you understand what I say. \v 17 Note this: many prophets and righteous people who lived long ago longed to see what you are seeing me do, but they did not see it. They longed to hear the things that you have been hearing me say, but they did not hear what you hear me say." - - \s5 \p \v 18 Now listen to me explain the parable I told you. @@ -66,9 +60,6 @@ because you understand what I say. \v 22 Some people hear God's message, but they desire to be rich, so they worry only about money and what they can buy with money. As a result, they forget God's message and they do not do the things that God wants them to do. These people are like the soil that had the roots of thorny weeds in it. \v 23 But some people hear my message and understand it. Some of them do many things that please God, some do even more things that please God, and some do very many things that please God. They are like the good soil where some of the seeds fell." - - - \s5 \p \v 24 Jesus also told the crowd another parable. He said, "When God begins to show himself as king, it will be like a landowner who sent his servants to sow good wheat seed in his field. @@ -83,8 +74,6 @@ because you understand what I say. \v 29 He said to them, 'No, do not do that, because you might pull up some of the wheat at the same time. \v 30 Let the wheat and the weeds grow together until harvest time. At that time I will say to those who will reap, 'First gather the weeds, tie them into bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat and put it into my barns.'" - - \s5 \p \v 31 Jesus also told this parable: "When God starts to show himself as king, it is like mustard seeds that grow after a man plants them in his field. @@ -94,17 +83,12 @@ because you understand what I say. \p \v 33 Jesus also told this parable: "When God starts to show himself as king, it is like a woman who was making bread. She took about forty liters of flour and mixed into it a little bit of yeast, and the bread rose." - - - \s5 \p \v 34 Jesus told the crowd parables to teach them all these things. When he spoke to them he habitually told stories like these. \v 35 By doing that, he made come true what God told one of the prophets to write long ago. \p I will speak in parables; I will tell parables to teach what I have kept secret since I created the world. - - \s5 \p \v 36 After Jesus sent the crowd away, he went into the house. Then the disciples approached him and said, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds that grew in the wheat field." @@ -118,8 +102,6 @@ because you understand what I say. \v 42 The angels will throw those people into the fires of hell. There those people will weep and grind their teeth because of the great pain that they are suffering. \v 43 However, God's brightness will shine on the people who have lived as he wants them to. It will shine on them as brightly as the sun shines. It will shine on them because God, their Father, will rule over them. If you want to understand this, you should think carefully about what I have just said." - - \s5 \p \v 44 "When people understand that God wishes to rule over them, it is like a man who found a great treasure that another person had buried in a field. When this man dug it up, he buried it again so no one else would find it. Then he went and sold all his possessions to obtain money to buy that field. He then went and bought the field, and so he was able to acquire that treasure. @@ -136,14 +118,11 @@ because you understand what I say. \v 49 This is like what will happen to people when the world ends. The angels will come to where God is judging people and will separate the wicked people from the righteous ones. \v 50 They will throw the wicked people into the fire in hell. And those wicked people will weep and gnash their teeth because of the intense pain they are suffering." - - \s5 \p \v 51 Then Jesus asked the disciples, "Do you understand all these parables I have told you?" They said to him, \v 52 "Yes, we understand them." Then he said, "Because you understand all these parables, you will understand the following parable: You, along with all others, will teach people what you heard me say about how God wishes to rule over people. You will add that to what you formerly learned. You will be like a house owner who takes both new things and old things out of his storage room." - \p \v 53 When Jesus had finished telling these parables, he took the disciples and left that area. @@ -155,6 +134,3 @@ because you understand what I say. \s5 \v 57 The people there refused to accept that Jesus was the Christ. So Jesus said to them, "People honor me and other prophets everywhere else we go, but in our hometowns we are not honored, and even our own families do not honor us!" \v 58 Jesus did not perform many miracles there because the people did not believe that he was the Christ. - - -