Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 13

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“But he sawn on the gude grunʼ, this is he wha baith hears and understauns the word; wha eʼen brings forth frute; and gies, this a hunner, that saxty, and the ither thretty.”

“And he sawn amang the thorns, this is he wha hears the word, and than the cark oʼ the warlʼ, and the glamor oʼ riches, smoor the word, and it bears nae frute.

“Whan ony ane hears the word oʼ the Kingdom, and understauns‐it‐na, than comes the Ill Ane, and cleeks awa that sawn in his heart: this is he sawn by the fit‐path.

“And he on the staney bit sawn, is he wha hears the word, and blythely receives it; “Yet has he nae rute in himsel, and bides but for a wee; and on dool or fash comin, he stumbles belyve.

“Ance again: The Kingdom oʼ Heeven is like to gear, hidlins in a field; the same, when a man has fund, he hides again, and for the joy oʼt gangs and niffersʼ aʼ that he has, and buys that field.

“And some fell on the gude grunʼ, and brocht forth frute — this a hunner, that saxty, and the ither thretty.

“ ‘Lat baith grow thegither till the hairst; and at hairst‐time I wull say to the shearers, “Gaither ye thegither the tares first, and burn them; but gaither ye the wheat intil my barn.’ ”