10And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more there, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give offspring to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

10You have visited the earth, and have plentifully watered it; you have many ways enriched it. The river of God is satisfied with water, you have prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

11Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers.

12You shall bless the crown of the year of your goodness: and your fields shall be satisfied with plenty.

13The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy,

14The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.

18For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us.

19For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

20For the creature was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope:

21Because the creature also itself shall be rescued from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

22For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

23And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the rescue of our body.

1The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side.

2And great crowds were gathered to him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the crowd stood on the shore.

3And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Look the sower went forth to sow.

4And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.

5And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth.

6And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

7And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.

8And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.

9The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.

10And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest you to them in parables?

11Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

12For the one who has, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but the one who has not, from him shall be taken away that also which he has.

13Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who says: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive.

15For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

16But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

17For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.

18Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

19When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there comes the evil one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the offspring by the way side.

20And he that received the offspring upon stony ground, is he that hears the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

21Yet has he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth trouble and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

22And he that received the offspring among thorns, is he that hears the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

23But he that received the offspring upon good ground, is he that hears the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.