He answered, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end 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 his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any one whom I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.”
And the servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?’
Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field;
“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;
And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.