but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

because I hear of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things, and when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.

And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say: “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.