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- He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?
- For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.
- If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”
- And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.
- For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”
- He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.
- He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
- By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
- And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”
- He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?
- It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground —
- when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”
- So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.
- He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.
based on NET Bible