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But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

He said to them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven ."

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

But he looked around to see who had done it.

But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, "Do not be afraid; just believe."

When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

and to put on sandals but not to wear two tunics.

But when Herod heard this, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!"

So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.