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187 Matthew 13
12:40 How long was Jesus
in the tomb? To firstcentury
Jews, any part of a
day could be counted as if it
were a full day, just as a child
born December 31 at 11:59
p.m. is deductible for incometax
purposes for the full year.
“Three days and three nights”
may simply refer to three
twenty-four-hour days (sunset-to-sunset
periods), and
Jesus was in fact in the tomb
during part of three different
days.
46 While he yet talked to the people,
behold, his mother and his brethren stood
without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said to him, Behold, your
mother and your brethren stand without,
desiring to speak with you.
48 But he answered and said to him that
told him, Who is my mother? and who
are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward
his disciples, and said, Behold my mother
and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of
my Father which is in heaven, the same
is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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CHAPTER 13
HE same day went Jesus out of the
house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered
together to him, so that he went into a
ship, and sat; and the whole multitude
stood on the shore.
3 And he spoke many things to them in
parables, saying, Behold, a sower went
forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell
by the way side, and the fowls came and
devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where
they had not much earth: and forthwith
they sprung up, because they had no
deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were
scorched; and because they had no root,
they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the
thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and
brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold,
some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And the disciples came, and said to
him, Why do you speak to them in parables?
11 He answered and said to them, Because
it is given to you to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but to
them it is not given.
12 For whosoever has, to him shall be
given, and he shall have more abundance:
but whosoever has not, from him shall
be taken away even that he has.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables:
because they seeing see not; and hearing
they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy
of Isaiah, which says, By hearing you
shall hear, and shall not understand; and
seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross,
and their ears are dull of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed; lest at any
time they should see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and should under-