After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

And the news of this spread throughout that region.

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

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.”