¹ In illo die exiens Jesus de domo, sedebat secus mare.

² Et congregatæ sunt ad eum turbæ multæ, ita ut naviculam ascendens sederet : et omnis turba stabat in littore,

³ et locutus est eis multa in parabolis, dicens : Ecce exiit qui seminat, seminare.

⁴ Et dum seminat, quædam ceciderunt secus viam, et venerunt volucres cæli, et comederunt ea.

⁵ Alia autem ceciderunt in petrosa, ubi non habebant terram multam : et continuo exorta sunt, quia non habebant altitudinem terræ :

⁶ sole autem orto æstuaverunt ; et quia non habebant radicem, aruerunt.

⁷ Alia autem ceciderunt in spinas : et creverunt spinæ, et suffocaverunt ea.

⁸ Alia autem ceciderunt in terram bonam : et dabant fructum, aliud centesimum, aliud sexagesimum, aliud trigesimum.

⁹ Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.

¹⁰ Et accedentes discipuli dixerunt ei : Quare in parabolis loqueris eis ?

¹¹ Qui respondens, ait illis : Quia vobis datum est nosse mysteria regni cælorum : illis autem non est datum.

¹² Qui enim habet, dabitur ei, et abundabit : qui autem non habet, et quod habet auferetur ab eo.

¹³ Ideo in parabolis loquor eis : quia videntes non vident, et audientes non audiunt, neque intelligunt.

¹⁴ Et adimpletur in eis prophetia Isaiæ, dicentis : Auditu audietis, et non intelligetis : et videntes videbitis, et non videbitis.

¹⁵ Incrassatum est enim cor populi hujus, et auribus graviter audierunt, et oculos suos clauserunt : nequando videant oculis, et auribus audiant, et corde intelligant, et convertantur, et sanem eos.

¹⁶ Vestri autem beati oculi quia vident, et aures vestræ quia audiunt.

¹⁷ Amen quippe dico vobis, quia multi prophetæ et justi cupierunt videre quæ videtis, et non viderunt : et audire quæ auditis, et non audierunt.

¹⁸ Vos ergo audite parabolam seminantis.

¹⁹ Omnis qui audit verbum regni, et non intelligit, venit malus, et rapit quod seminatum est in corde ejus : hic est qui secus viam seminatus est.

²⁰ Qui autem super petrosa seminatus est, hic est qui verbum audit, et continuo cum gaudio accipit illud :

²¹ non habet autem in se radicem, sed est temporalis : facta autem tribulatione et persecutione propter verbum, continuo scandalizatur.

²² Qui autem seminatus est in spinis, hic est qui verbum audit, et sollicitudo sæculi istius, et fallacia divitiarum suffocat verbum, et sine fructu efficitur.

²³ Qui vero in terram bonam seminatus est, hic est qui audit verbum, et intelligit, et fructum affert, et facit aliud quidem centesimum, aliud autem sexagesimum, aliud vero trigesimum.

²⁴ Aliam parabolam proposuit illis, dicens : Simile factum est regnum cælorum homini, qui seminavit bonum semen in agro suo :

²⁵ cum autem dormirent homines, venit inimicus ejus, et superseminavit zizania in medio tritici, et abiit.

²⁶ Cum autem crevisset herba, et fructum fecisset, tunc apparuerunt et zizania.

²⁷ Accedentes autem servi patrisfamilias, dixerunt ei : Domine, nonne bonum semen seminasti in agro tuo ? unde ergo habet zizania ?

²⁸ Et ait illis : Inimicus homo hoc fecit. Servi autem dixerunt ei : Vis, imus, et colligimus ea ?

²⁹ Et ait : Non : ne forte colligentes zizania, eradicetis simul cum eis et triticum.

³⁰ Sinite utraque crescere usque ad messem, et in tempore messis dicam messoribus : Colligite primum zizania, et alligate ea in fasciculos ad comburendum : triticum autem congregate in horreum meum.

³¹ Aliam parabolam proposuit eis dicens : Similis est regnum cælorum grano sinapis, quod accipiens homo seminavit in agro suo :

³² quod minimum quidem est omnibus seminibus : cum autem creverit, majus est omnibus oleribus, et fit arbor, ita ut volucres cæli veniant, et habitent in ramis ejus.

³³ Aliam parabolam locutus est eis : Similis est regnum cælorum fermento, quod acceptum mulier abscondit in farinæ satis tribus, donec fermentatum est totum.

³⁴ Hæc omnia locutus est Jesus in parabolis ad turbas : et sine parabolis non loquebatur eis :

³⁵ ut impleretur quod dictum erat per prophetam dicentem : Aperiam in parabolis os meum ; eructabo abscondita a constitutione mundi.

³⁶ Tunc, dimissis turbis, venit in domum : et accesserunt ad eum discipuli ejus, dicentes : Edissere nobis parabolam zizaniorum agri.

³⁷ Qui respondens ait illis : Qui seminat bonum semen, est Filius hominis.

³⁸ Ager autem est mundus. Bonum vero semen, hi sunt filii regnum. Zizania autem, filii sunt nequam.

³⁹ Inimicus autem, qui seminavit ea, est diabolus. Messis vero, consummatio sæculi est. Messores autem, angeli sunt.

⁴⁰ Sicut ergo colliguntur zizania, et igni comburuntur : sic erit in consummatione sæculi.

⁴¹ Mittet Filius hominis angelos suos, et colligent de regno ejus omnia scandala, et eos qui faciunt iniquitatem :

⁴² et mittent eos in caminum ignis. Ibi erit fletus et stridor dentium.

⁴³ Tunc justi fulgebunt sicut sol in regno Patris eorum. Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.

⁴⁴ Simile est regnum cælorum thesauro abscondito in agro : quem qui invenit homo, abscondit, et præ gaudio illius vadit, et vendit universa quæ habet, et emit agrum illum.

⁴⁵ Iterum simile est regnum cælorum homini negotiatori, quærenti bonas margaritas.

⁴⁶ Inventa autem una pretiosa margarita, abiit, et vendidit omnia quæ habuit, et emit eam.

⁴⁷ Iterum simile est regnum cælorum sagenæ missæ in mare, et ex omni genere piscium congreganti.

⁴⁸ Quam, cum impleta esset, educentes, et secus littus sedentes, elegerunt bonis in vasa, malos autem foras miserunt.

⁴⁹ Sic erit in consummatione sæculi : exibunt angeli, et separabunt malos de medio justorum,

⁵⁰ et mittent eos in caminum ignis : ibi erit fletus, et stridor dentium.

⁵¹ Intellexistis hæc omnia ? Dicunt ei : Etiam.

⁵² Ait illis : Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno cælorum, similis est homini patrifamilias, qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.

⁵³ Et factum est, cum consummasset Jesus parabolas istas, transiit inde.

⁵⁴ Et veniens in patriam suam, docebat eos in synagogis eorum, ita ut mirarentur, et dicerent : Unde huic sapientia hæc, et virtutes ?

⁵⁵ Nonne hic est fabri filius ? nonne mater ejus dicitur Maria, et fratres ejus, Jacobus, et Joseph, et Simon, et Judas ?

⁵⁶ et sorores ejus, nonne omnes apud nos sunt ? unde ergo huic omnia ista ?

⁵⁷ Et scandalizabantur in eo. Jesus autem dixit eis : Non est propheta sine honore, nisi in patria sua, et in domo sua.

⁵⁸ Et non fecit ibi virtutes multas propter incredulitatem illorum.

¹ Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

² Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

⁴ Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

⁵ Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

⁶ Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

⁷ Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

⁸ He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

¹⁰ Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,

¹¹ "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

¹² Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

¹³ Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh."

¹⁴ Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"

¹⁵ Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."

¹⁶ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on."

¹⁷ Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

¹⁸ and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

¹⁹ Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

²⁰ Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

²¹ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal."

²² Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."

²⁴ Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

²⁵ Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh."

²⁶ Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."

²⁷ As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

²⁸ Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

²⁹ Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

³⁰ Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."

³¹ So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

³² Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

³³ Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!" Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

³⁴ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

³⁵ Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.