And having answered, he said to them, He who sows the good seed is the Son of man,
But ye will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you. And ye will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as of the extremity of the earth.
He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
The Son of man will send forth his agents, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,
For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,
Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any man whomever I may send, receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
But the bondmen of the house-ruler having come, they said to him, Sir, did thou not sow good seed in thy field? From where then does it have tares?
He set forth another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man sowing good seed in his field.
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.
how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;
God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son,
And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them.
Bread [grain] is ground, for he will not be always threshing it. And though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.