9 And his 'disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

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11 'Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and "taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these

MAT. xiii. 10: The disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? MARK, iv. 10 : When he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

See on MAT. xiii. 14.

'MAT. xiii. 18: Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. MARK, iv. 14: The sower soweth the word.

m1 PET. i. 23: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

" PRO. iv. 5: Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. JAMES, i. 23, 24: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

• Ps. cvi. 12, 13: Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel. ISA. lviii. 2: Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. EZEK. Xxxiii. 31: They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them : for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. GAL. iii. 1, 4: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evi

have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no 'fruit to perfection.

15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart,5 having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with "patience.

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6 a pure and good heart. Co. Cr. perseverance. Ham. We. dently set forth, crucified among you? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. do. iv. 15: Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. 2 TIM. i. 15: This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

P PRO. xii. 3: A man shall not be established by wickedness but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Hos. vi. 4: 0 Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

1 JOHN, ii. 15-17: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. See on MAT. xiii. 22.

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JOHN, xv. 6: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

"JER. XXXII. 39: And I will give them one heart, and one. way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.

'GAL.V. 22,23: The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

" MAT. xxiv. 13: He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. HEB. x. 36: For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. JAMES, i. 4: But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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16 ¶ No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed;' but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

17 For nothing is "secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.8

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18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for 'whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he 'seemeth to have.9

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19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. 20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.10

21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

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See on MAT. v. 15.

"See on LUKE, xii. 2.

ECCLES. v. 1: Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools. HEB. iv. 2: The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. JAMES, i. 21: Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

! See on MAT. xiii. 12.

* REV. iii. 17: Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. See on MAT. xii. 40.

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23 But as they sailed" he fell asleep and there came down a storm of wind on the lake and they were filled with water, and 12 were in jeopardy.

24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: 13 and they ceased, and there was a calm.

25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? and they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

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26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,1 which is over against Galilee.

27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me

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29 (For he15 had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.

30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy

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ciples followed him. MARK, iv. 35: The same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

31 And they besought him that he would not * command them to go out into the deep.

32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choaked.16

34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they 'fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind : and they were afraid.

36 They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.

37 ¶ Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to

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REV. XX. 2, 3: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more.

Acts, xix. 16, 17: And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

§ See on MAT. viii. 24.

ACTS, xvi. 39: And they came and besought them, and