Matthew 13:19
19When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn''t take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person''s heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road.i
19When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn''t take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person''s heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road.i
Matthew 13 marks a decisive pivot in Jesus’s ministry. He moves from teaching the crowds in synagogues and on hillsides to speaking exclusively in parables — stories that simultaneously reveal and conceal. This chapter collects seven parables about the kingdom of heaven, each one
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