A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek / Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth

by Thomas Haweis

³¹Then came his brethren and his mother, and standing without sent unto him, calling aloud for him. ³²And the multitude sat around him, and they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without are asking for thee. ³³And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother or my brethren? ³⁴And looking about on those who were sitting in a circle round him, he saith, Behold my mother and my brethren! ³⁵For whosoever shall do the will of God, that person is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

[CHAP. IV.]

AND again he began to teach by the sea side: and a vast multitude was assembled about him, so that he went into a vessel to sit down on the sea, and all the multitude was on the land close by the sea. ²And he taught them in parables many things, and said unto them in the course of his teaching, ³Hear me! Behold, a sower went out to sow; ⁴and it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up. ⁵And some fell on a rocky soil, where it had not much mold, and immediately it sprung up, because it had no depth of earth: ⁶and when the sun arose it was scorched up; and because it had not root, it withered away. ⁷And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it, and it produced no fruit. ⁸And some fell on good ground, and produced fruit, growing up, and increasing, and yielded one part thirty fold, and another sixty, and another an hundred. ⁹And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁰But when they were alone, those who were about him with the twelve, asked him the meaning of the parable. ¹¹And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are without, all things are in parables: ¹²That seeing they may see, yet not perceive; and hearing may hear, yet not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them. ¹³And he saith to them, Know ye not this parable? and how will ye know all parables? ¹⁴The sower soweth the word. ¹⁵Now these are they by the road side; where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan cometh, and taketh away the word sown on their hearts: ¹⁶and these in like manner are they who were sown on the rocky soil; who when they have heard the word, instantly with joy receive it; ¹⁷and have no root in themselves, but are temporary professors: afterwards, when tribulation cometh or persecution for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. ¹⁸And those are the sown among the thorns; such as are hearers of the word; ¹⁹but the anxious cares of this world, and the seducing nature of wealth, and inordinate desires after other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. ²⁰And these are they who are sown on the good ground, such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty fold, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

²¹And he said unto them, Is a lamp brought out to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be placed on a stand? ²²For there is nothing hid, but that it should be brought to light, nor is any thing concealed, but that it should come into open day. ²³If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. ²⁴And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with the measure ye mete, shall it be measured back to you; and something over shall be given to you that hear. ²⁵For to him that hath, there shall more be given to him; but he that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.

²⁶And he said, The kingdom of heaven is of that kind, as if a man should cast seed into his field; ²⁷and sleep and rise, night and day, and the sown corn should sprout, and grow into length, he knoweth not how: ²⁸for the earth, naturally prolific, beareth fruit; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. ²⁹But when the grain is ready, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because harvest is come.

³⁰And he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God, and under what parabolic figure shall I represent it? ³¹It is like a grain of mustard, which when it is sown in the earth, is among the least of all the seeds which are upon the earth: ³²but when it is sown, it groweth up and becomes greater than all herbaceous plants, and produceth vast branches; so that the birds of the air may roost under the shadow of it. ³³And with many such like parables spake he to them the word. ³⁴And without a parable spake he not unto them; but in private he explained them all to his disciples.

³⁵And the same day he saith unto them, as the evening shut in, Let us pass over to the other side. ³⁶And sending the multitude away, they took him just as he was in the vessel; and there were also some other little vessels with him. ³⁷And a great hurricane arose, and the waves broke into the vessel, so that it was now full of water: ³⁸and he was in the stern, sleeping on a pillow: and they awoke him, and say unto him, Master, is it no concern to thee that we are perishing? ³⁹And rising, he with authority charged the wind, and said to the sea, Silence! be still! And the wind subsided, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰And he said to them, Why are ye so timorous? How is it that ye have not confidence? ⁴¹And they were filled with the most reverential awe, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

[CHAP. V.]

AND they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. ²And as he was going out of the vessel, immediately there met him a man with an unclean spirit, ³coming out of the tombs; who had his abode among the tombs; and no man could secure him, not even with chains; ⁴for he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains were burst asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces, and no man was able to master him: ⁵and continually night and day he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, screaming, and cutting himself with stones. ⁶But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, ⁷and crying with a loud voice, said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus thou Son of God most high? I adjure thee by God, that thou dost not send me to torment. ⁸(For he had said unto him, Come out, unclean spirit, from the man.) ⁹And he interrogated him, What is thy name? and he replied, saying, Legion is my name; for we are many. ¹⁰And he entreated him much that he would not send them out of the country. ¹¹And a great herd of swine was there feeding on the mountain: ¹²and all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. ¹³And immediately Jesus permitted them. And the unclean spirits going forth, entered into the swine; and the herd rushed violently down a precipice into the sea (they were about two thousand), and were suffocated in the sea. ¹⁴Then the swineherds fled, and carried the tidings into the city and into the country. And they went out to see what was done. ¹⁵And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac that had the legion, seated and clothed, and in his sound mind: and they were afraid. ¹⁶And they who saw the transaction, told them how it had been with the demoniac, and concerning the swine. ¹⁷And they began to entreat him to depart out of their coasts.

¹⁸And when he embarked on board the vessel, the demoniac besought him, that he might go with him. ¹⁹But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, Go to thine house, and to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. ²⁰And he went out, and began to publish in Decapolis, what great things Jesus had done for him: and all men marvelled.