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And he said to them:* Commeth a candel to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be put upon the candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shal not be made manifest: neither was any thing made secret, but that it shal come to light. If any man have eares to heare, let him heare.

And he said to them: See what you heare. * In what measure you mete, it shal be measured to you againe, and more shal be given ′ to you. For he that hath, to him shal be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath, shal be taken away from him.

And he said: So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man cast seed into the earth, ″ and sleep, and rise up night and day, and the seed spring, and grow up whiles he knoweth not. For the earth of it self bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the eare, afterward the ful corne in the eare. And when the fruite hath brought out it self, immediatly he putteth in the sickle, because harvest is come.

* And he said: To what shal we liken the Kingdom of God? or to what parable shal we compare it? As a ″ mustard seede; which when it is sowen in the earth, is lesse then al the seeds that are in the earth: And when it is sowen, it riseth up, and becometh greater then al herbes, and maketh great boughes, so that the ″ birdes of the aire may dwel under the shadow thereof.

And with many such parables he spake to them the Word, according as they were able to heare: and without parable he did not speake unto them; but apart, he explicated al things to his Disciples.

And he saith to them in that day, when evening was come: * Let us passe over to the other side. And dimissing the multitude, they take him so as he was in the boat: and there were other boats with him. And there arose a great storme of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was filled. And he was in the hinder part of the boat sleeping upon a pillow; and they raise him, and say to him: Maister, doth it not pertaine to thee that we perish? And rising up he threatned the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be stil. And the wind ceased; and there was made a great calme. And he said to them: Why are you feareful? neither yet have you faith? And they feared with great feare: and they said one to an other, who is this (thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him?

ANNOTATIONS. IV.

12. Lest they should be converted.) These speaches here and els where, we must not so understand as though he spake in parables of purpose and to this end, that the hearers might not understand, lest they should be converted; which were as much to say as that he would not have them understand, nor be converted: but we must learne the true sense Rh