3 Jesus usou parábolas para ensinar muitas coisas. Ele disse:

— Escutem! Certo homem saiu para semear. 4 Quando estava espalhando as sementes, algumas caíram na beira do caminho, e os passarinhos comeram tudo. 5 Outra parte das sementes caiu num lugar onde havia muitas pedras e pouca terra. As sementes brotaram logo porque a terra não era funda. 6 Mas, quando o sol apareceu, queimou as plantas, e elas secaram porque não tinham raízes. 7 Outras sementes caíram no meio de espinhos, que cresceram e sufocaram as plantas. 8 Mas as sementes que caíram em terra boa produziram na base de cem, de sessenta e de trinta grãos por um.

9 E Jesus terminou, dizendo:

— Se vocês têm ouvidos para ouvir, então ouçam.

3 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.

4 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you{}? How long shall I bear with you{}? Bring him here to me.

5 And Jesus rebuked him; and the demon went out of him: and the boy was cured from that hour.

6 And while they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men;

7 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up. And they were exceedingly sorry.

8 And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them might be the greatest.

9 But Jesus knowing the reasoning of their heart, took a little child, and set him by his side,