The Parable of the Weeds
Matthew 13:24
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
- KJV
- ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
- WEB
- He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
- ASV
- Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
- LSV
- Another allegory He set before them, saying, “The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
- YLT
- Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
- DBY
- Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his field;
- DRC
- Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field.
- GNV
- Another parable put hee foorth vnto them, saying, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man which sowed good seede in his fielde.
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read σπείραντι (“having sown”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read σπείροντι (“[who] is sowing”).
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- SBLGNT: σπείραντι. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σπείραντι; Robinson–Pierpont read σπείροντι.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Ἄλλην παραβολὴν παρέθηκεν αὐτοῖς λέγων· Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ σπείραντι καλὸν σπέρμα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ αὐτοῦ.
- RP2018
- Ἄλλην παραβολὴν παρέθηκεν αὐτοῖς, λέγων, Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ σπείροντι καλὸν σπέρμα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ αὐτοῦ·
- TR-Boyd
- Ἄλλην παραβολὴν παρέθηκεν αὐτοῖς, λέγων, Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ σπείροντι καλὸν σπέρμα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ αὐτοῦ·σπείροντι ¦ σπείραντι SCR
- SCR1894
- αλλην παραβολην παρεθηκεν αυτοις λεγων ωμοιωθη η βασιλεια των ουρανων ανθρωπω σπειραντι καλον σπερμα εν τω αγρω αυτου
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 25:1“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Matthew 13:47Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
- Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
- Matthew 22:2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
- Matthew 13:37He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
- Luke 13:20Again He asked, “To what can I compare the kingdom of God?
- Matthew 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- Luke 13:18Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
- 1 Peter 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
- Mark 4:26–30Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how. All by itself the earth produces a…
- Matthew 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
- Matthew 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Matthew 18:23Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
- Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
- Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Matthew 13:44–45The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in…
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