As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, {it} cannot defile him;

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

{Which} when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. {proverbs: or, parables}

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these {things mean}? tell {them}, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?