¹ Estis viro el la Benjamenidoj, kiu havis la nomon Kisx, filo de Abiel, filo de Ceror, filo de Behxorat, filo de Afiahx, Benjamenido, viro forta.

² Li havis filon, kies nomo estis Saul; cxi tiu estis juna kaj bela, kaj neniu el la Izraelidoj estis pli bela ol li; de siaj sxultroj supren li estis pli alta ol la tuta popolo.

³ Perdigxis azeninoj de Kisx, patro de Saul; kaj Kisx diris al sia filo Saul:Prenu kun vi unu el la junuloj, kaj levigxu, kaj iru sercxi la azeninojn.

⁴ Kaj li iris sur la monton de Efraim kaj trairis la landon SXalisxa, sed ili ne trovis; kaj ili trairis la landon SXaalim, sed tie ne trovigxis; kaj li trairis la landon de Benjamen, sed ili ne trovis.

⁵ Kiam li venis en la landon Cuf, Saul diris al la junulo, kiu estis kun li:Venu, ni reiru hejmen, cxar alie mia patro eble cxesos pensi pri la azeninoj kaj estos maltrankvila pri ni.

⁶ Kaj tiu diris al li:Jen en cxi tiu urbo estas Dia homo, homo respektata; cxio, kion li diras, nepre plenumigxas; ni iru do tien, eble li montros al ni la vojon, kiun ni devas iri.

⁷ Kaj Saul diris al sia junulo:Bone, ni iros, sed kion ni alportos al la homo? cxar la pano elcxerpigxis en nia sako, kaj ni havas nenian donacon, por alporti al la Dia homo; kion ni havas?

⁸ La junulo plue respondis al Saul kaj diris:Jen en mia mano trovigxas kvarono de argxenta siklo; mi donos gxin al la Dia homo, kaj li montros al ni la vojon.

⁹ (En la antauxa tempo cxe Izrael oni tiel diradis, kiam oni iris demandi Dion:Ni iru al la antauxvidisto; cxar kion oni nun nomas profeto, tion oni antauxe nomis antauxvidisto.)

¹⁰ Kaj Saul diris al sia junulo:Bone vi diris; ni iru. Kaj ili iris en la urbon, en kiu logxis la Dia homo.

¹¹ Irante supren en la urbon, ili renkontis knabinojn, kiuj eliris, por cxerpi akvon; kaj ili diris al tiuj:CXu la antauxvidisto estas cxi tie?

¹² Kaj tiuj respondis al ili kaj diris:CXi tie; jen li estas antaux vi; nun rapidu, cxar hodiaux li venis en la urbon, cxar hodiaux la popolo alportas bucxoferon sur la altajxo.

¹³ Kiam vi eniros en la urbon, vi tuj trovos lin, antaux ol li iros sur la altajxon, por mangxi; cxar la popolo ne mangxas antaux lia veno, cxar li benas la bucxoferon, kaj nur poste mangxas la invititoj. Iru do, cxar nun vi lin trovos.

¹⁴ Kaj ili iris supren en la urbon. Apenaux ili venis en la mezon de la urbo, jen Samuel eliras renkonte al ili, por iri sur la altajxon.

¹⁵ Dume la Eternulo revelaciis al la oreloj de Samuel, unu tagon antaux la veno de Saul, dirante:

¹⁶ Morgaux en cxi tiu tempo Mi sendos al vi homon el la lando de Benjamen, kaj vi sanktoleos lin kiel cxefon super Mia popolo Izrael, kaj li savos Mian popolon el la manoj de la Filisxtoj; cxar Mi vidis Mian popolon, kaj gxiaj krioj atingis Min.

¹⁷ Kiam Samuel ekvidis Saulon, la Eternulo diris al li:Jen estas la homo, pri kiu Mi diris al vi, ke li regos super Mia popolo.

¹⁸ Saul alproksimigxis al Samuel en la pordego, kaj diris:Diru al mi, mi petas, kie estas cxi tie la domo de la antauxvidisto.

¹⁹ Kaj Samuel respondis al Saul kaj diris:Mi estas la antauxvidisto; iru antaux mi sur la altajxon; vi mangxos kun mi hodiaux, kaj morgaux mi lasos vin for, kaj mi diros al vi cxion, kio estas en via koro.

²⁰ Kaj pri la azeninoj, kiuj perdigxis cxe vi antaux tri tagoj, ne zorgu, cxar ili estas trovitaj. Kaj al kiu apartenos cxio plej bona en Izrael? cxu ne al vi kaj al la tuta domo de via patro?

²¹ Saul respondis kaj diris:Mi estas ja Benjamenido, el la plej malgrandaj triboj de Izrael, kaj mia familio estas la plej malgranda el cxiuj familioj de la tribo de Benjamen; kial do vi diris al mi tiajn vortojn?

²² Tiam Samuel prenis Saulon kaj lian junulon, kaj enkondukis ilin en la mangxocxambron, kaj donis al ili lokon supraloke de la invititoj, kiuj estis en la nombro de cxirkaux tridek homoj.

²³ Kaj Samuel diris al la kuiristo:Donu tiun porcion, kiun mi donis al vi kaj pri kiu mi diris al vi, ke vi retenu gxin cxe vi.

²⁴ Kaj la kuiristo prezentis femuron, kaj tion, kio estas kun gxi, kaj metis tion antaux Saulon, kaj Samuel diris:Jen estas, kio restis; metu gxin antaux vin kaj mangxu, cxar gxi estas rezervita por vi por la tempo, por kiu mi invitis la popolon. Kaj Saul mangxis kun Samuel en tiu tago.

²⁵ Kaj ili malsupreniris de la altajxo en la urbon, kaj Samuel parolis kun Saul sur la tegmento.

²⁶ Kaj ili levigxis frue; kaj kiam la matenrugxo levigxis, Samuel vokis Saulon sur la tegmenton, kaj diris:Levigxu, mi lasos vin for. Kaj Saul levigxis, kaj ili eliris ambaux, li kaj Samuel, eksteren.

²⁷ Kiam ili atingis la finon de la urbo, Samuel diris al Saul:Diru al la junulo, ke li iru antauxen (kaj tiu iris antauxen); kaj vi haltu nun, kaj mi anoncos al vi la diron de Dio.

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

² Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

³ He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

⁴ As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

⁵ Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

⁶ When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

⁷ Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

⁸ Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

¹⁰ The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

¹¹ He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

¹⁴ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

¹⁵ for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

¹⁶ "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

¹⁷ For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.

¹⁸ "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

²⁰ What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

²² What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

²³ What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

²⁴ He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

²⁵ but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

²⁶ But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

²⁷ The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

²⁸ "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

²⁹ "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

³¹ He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

³² which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."

³³ He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."

³⁷ He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

³⁸ the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

⁴⁰ As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

⁴⁴ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

⁴⁵ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

⁴⁷ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

⁴⁸ which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

⁵⁰ and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."

⁵¹ Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord."

⁵² He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."

⁵³ It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

⁵⁴ Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

⁵⁵ Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

⁵⁶ Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?"

⁵⁷ They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."

⁵⁸ He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.