Matthew 13:37
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
KJV
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· ὁ σπείρων τὸ καλὸν σπέρμα ἐστὶν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου,
Greek NT
Qui respondens ait illis : Qui seminat bonum semen, est Filius hominis.
Vulgate
And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
ASV
Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
σπέρμα
sperma
noun · 44×
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: εἶπεν | WH/Treg/NIV: εἶπεν | RP: + αὐτοῖς
- εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- εἶπεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + αὐτοῖς — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 5.—The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World. The Saviour Himself, while reproving the cities in which He had done great works, but which had not believed, and while setting them in unfavorable comparison with foreign cities, says, “But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:5 — Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
- Acts 1:8 — But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth
- John 13:20 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
- John 20:21 — Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
- Luke 8:5 — A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
- Luke 10:16 — He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
- Mark 4:14 — The sower soweth the word.
- Matt 8:20 — And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Matt 10:40 — He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
- Matt 13:24 — Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
- Matt 13:24 — Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
- Matt 13:27 — So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
- Matt 13:41 — The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
- Matt 16:13 — When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
- Matt 16:13 — When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
- Rom 15:18 — For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,