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and one said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren do stand without, seeking to speak to thee.'

And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'

And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea,

and gathered together unto him were many multitudes, so that he having gone into the boat did sit down, and all the multitude on the beach did stand,

and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

for verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men did desire to see that which ye look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which ye hear, and they did not hear.

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,

Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, `Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'

And he answering said to them, `He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,

the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye understand all these?' They say to him, `Yes, sir.'

And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these similes, he removed thence,

and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, `Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works?

is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

and his sisters--are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?'