Jesus Loves Me!

                                                      The Sower.
                                      This is story is taken from the Holy Bible.
                        Copyright (C) by Noelene Rout 2nd September 2006 all rights reserved.

And it happened afterwards, that Jesus went through every city and village, preaching the gospel of God's kingdom, and with him were his twelve disciples, and the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susannah, and Mary Magdalene who was delivered from seven devils, and many others who ministered to him from their posessions.

And one day Jesus left a house and went and sat beside the sea.
And great multitudes of people gathered together and came to him from every city; so, Jesus climbed into a ship and sat in the ship upon the sea; and the whole multitude of people stood on the land beside the sea.

And Jesus taught them many things in parables, and he said to them from his doctrine,

Listen, a man went out to plant (sow) some seeds.

And it happened that some of his seeds fell by the side of the road, and they wethem trodden into the ground, and birds came and ate them.

And some of the seeds fell onto stony ground where there was little earth; and the seeds grew  up straight away, because the soil wasn't deep.

And as soon as the seedlings had grown, and the sun had risen, the seedlings were burned by the heat of the sun; because they didn't have any roots to take water from the soil, so the little plants dried up.

And some of the seeds fell among thorny plants, and the thorny plants grew up with the seedlings, and the thorny plants choked the seedlings to death, and the little seedlings didn't get to grow any fruit.

And some of the seeds fell into ground that was good, and the seeds grew into plants, and the plants produced fruit, and that fruit multiplied and produced more fruit, some of the fruit of the plants produced thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred more plants.

And when Jesus had talked about these things he said, whoever has ears to hear with, let those people hear.

And when Jesus was alone, his disciples and others, came to him and they asked him why he was speaking to people in parables, and what this parable meant.

And Jesus said to them, To you it is given to know the mysteries of God's kingdom.

For whoever has, to him it will be given, and he will have abundantly more: but whoever has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

That is why I speak to them in parables: But to those who are outside of the kingdom these words are spoken in parables because they see and yet they cannot see, and they hear but they cannot hear, and they do not understand.

And the prophesy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them, which says, Seeing you will see and not perceive, and you will hear but you will not understand.

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