Devotions

“With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; and He did not speak to them without a parable;…

“And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?  It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the…

“The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.  But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle,…

“And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day,…

“For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him” (Mark 4:25). We are materialistic in…

“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”  And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured…

“And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put…

“And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold”…

“And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the…

“In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they…