Section
XVII.
[1] 1204
And he set forth to
them another
parable, and said, The
kingdom of
heaven is [2] like a man
who sowed good
seed in his
field;
1205
but when men
slept, his
enemy came [3] and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went
away.
1206
And when the blade
sprang up [4] and brought forth fruit, there were noticed the tares
also.
1207
And the
servants of
the master of the
house came, and said unto him, Our
lord, didst thou
not sow good [5] [Arabic, p. 66]
seed in thy
field? whence are there tares in it?
1208
He said unto them, An
enemy hath done
this. His
servants said unto him, Wilt thou that we go [6] and
separate it?
1209
He said unto them,
Perhaps,
1210
| 1210 See above, § 4,
24, note. |
when ye separate
the tares, ye would [7] root up with them
wheat also.
1211
Leave them to grow both together until the
harvest: and in the time of the
harvest I will say unto the
reapers, Separate the tares first, and
bind them in bundles to be
burned with
fire; and
gather the
wheat into my
barns.
[8, 9] 1212
And he set forth to
them another
parable, and said,
1213
To what is the
kingdom of [10]
God like? and to what shall I liken it? and in what
parable shall I set it forth?
1214
It [11] is like
a
grain of mustard
seed, which a man took, and
planted in his
field:
1215
and of the number of
the things that are sown in the
earth it is smaller than all of the
things [12] which are sown, which are upon the
earth;
1216
but when it is grown, it is greater than all
the
herbs, and produceth large
branches, so that the
birds of
heaven
make
their nests in its
branches.
[13, 14] 1217
And he set forth to
them another
parable:
1218
To what shall I
liken the
kingdom of [15]
God?
1219
It
is like the
leaven which a
woman took, and kneaded into three measures
of
flour, until the whole of it was leavened.
[16] 1220
And
Jesus spake all
that to the multitudes by way of
parables, according as they [17] were
able to hear.
1221
And without
parables
spake he not unto them; that the saying of the
Lord through the
prophet
might be fulfilled:
I will open my mouth in parables;
And I will utter secrets which were before the
foundations1222
| 1222 The word (if not
a corruption of that used in the Brit. Mus. text of
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, and in § 43, 46 where, however,
according to Ciasca’s foot-note, it was not the word first
written by the scribe) is Syriac. Perhaps it means the ends of
the earth (see P. Smith, Thes. Syr.). Still a third
word is used in § 47, 42. |
of the
world.
[18] 1223
But he explained to
his
disciples privately everything.
[19] 1224
Then
Jesus
left
1225
the multitudes, and came to the
house.
And his
disciples came unto him, and said unto him, Explain unto us
that
parable about the tares [20] [Arabic, p. 67] and the
field.
1226
He answered and said unto them, He that sowed
good
seed is [21] the Son of man;
1227
and the
field
is the
world; and the good
seed are the
children of the [22]
kingdom;
1228
and the tares are the
children of the
evil
one; and the
enemy that sowed them
1229
is
Satan; and
the
harvest is the end of the
world; and the
reapers are the
angels. [23]
1230
And as the tares are
separated and
burned in the
fire, so shall it be in the end of [24]
this
world.
1231
The Son of man shall
send his
angels, and separate from his
kingdom [25] all things that
injure,
1232
and all the doers of
iniquity, and they shall cast them into the [26]
furnace of
fire:
and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1233
Then the
righteous shall shine as the sun in
the
kingdom of their
Father. Whosoever hath
ears that hear, let
him hear.
[27] 1234
And again the
kingdom of
heaven is like
treasure hid in a
field: that which a
man found and hid; and, for his
pleasure in it, went and sold all that
he had, and
bought that
field.
[28] 1235
And again the
kingdom of
heaven is like a man
that is a
merchant seeking
excellent [29]
pearls;
1236
and when he found
one
pearl of great
price, he went and sold everything that he had, and
bought it.
[30] 1237
And again the
kingdom of
heaven is like a net that was cast
1238
| 1238 cf. note to
§ 10, 8. |
into the
sea, and [31] gathered of every
kind:
1239
and when it was filled, they drew it up on to
the
shore of the
sea, and sat down to select; and the good of them they
threw into the
vessels, [32] and the bad they threw outside.
1240
Thus shall it be in the end of the
world: the
angels [33] shall go forth,
1241
and
separate the
wicked from among the good, and shall cast them into the
furnace of
fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
[34] 1242
Jesus said unto
them, Have ye understood all these
things? They said unto
[35] [Arabic, p. 68] him, Yea, our
Lord.
1243
He
said unto them, Therefore every
scribe that becometh a
disciple of the
kingdom of
heaven is like a man that is a householder, who bringeth out
of his
treasures the new and the old.
[36, 37] 1244
And when
Jesus had
finished all these
parables, he removed thence, and came to his city;
1245
and he taught them in their synagogues, so
that they were
perplexed. [38]
1246
And
when the
sabbath came,
Jesus began to
teach in the
synagogue; and many
of [39] those that heard marvelled, and said, Whence came these things
to this
man? And many envied him and gave no heed to him,
but said, What is this
wisdom that is given to this
man, that there should
happen at his
hands such as these mighty works?
1247
[40]
1248
Is
not this a
carpenter, son of a
carpenter? and is not his mother called
Mary? and [41] his
brethren, James, and Joses, and
Simon, and
Judas?
1249
And his sisters, all
of them, [42] lo, are they not all with us?
1250
Whence hath this
man all these
things? And they were in doubt concerning him.
1251
And
Jesus knew their opinion, and said unto
them, Will ye haply
1252
| 1252 cf. above,
§ 4, 24, note. |
say unto me this
proverb,
Physician,
heal first thyself: and all that [43] we have
heard that thou didst in
Capernaum, do here also in thine
own
city?
1253
And he said, Verily
I say unto you, A
prophet is not received in his
own city, nor
among [44] his
brethren:
1254
for a
prophet
is not
despised,
save in his
own city, and among his
own
[45]
kin, and in his
own house.
1255
Verily I say unto you, In the days of
Elijah
the
prophet, there were many
widows among the
children of
Israel, when
the
heaven held back [46] three years and six months,
1256
and there was a great
famine in all the
land;
and
Elijah [Arabic, p. 69] was not sent to one of them,
save to
Zarephath of
Sidon, to a
woman that was [47] a
widow.
1257
And many
lepers were among the
children of
Israel in the days of
Elisha the
prophet; but not one of them was
cleansed,
save Naaman the Nabathæan.
1258
| 1258 Of the Syriac
versions Cur. and Sin. are wanting. Pesh. has
Aramæan. |
[48]
1259
And
he was not able to do there many mighty works,
1260
because of their
unbelief; [49] except that he laid his
hand upon a few
of the
sick, and
healed them.
1261
And
he marvelled [50] at their lack of
faith.
1262
And when those who were in the
synagogue
heard, [51] they were all filled with wrath; and they rose up,
1263
and brought him forth outside the city, and
brought him to the brow of the hill upon which their city was built,
that [52] they might cast him from its summit:
1264
but he passed through among them and went
away.
[53] 1265
And he went about in
the villages which
were around Nazareth, and taught in their
synagogues.
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