إنجيل القدّيس متّى 23-18:13
فَاسْمَعوا أَنتم مَثَلَ الزَّارِع:
كُلُّ مَن سَمِعَ كَلِمَةَ الملكوت ولم يَفهَمْها، يَأتي الشِّرِّيرُ ويَخطَفُ ما زُرِعَ في قَلبِه: فهذا هوَ الَّذي زُرِعَ في جانِبِ الطَّريق.
وأَمَّا الَّذي زُرِعَ في الأَرضِ الحَجِرة، فهُو الَّذي يَسمَعُ الكَلِمة ويَتَقَبَّلُها لِوَقْتِهِ فَرِحًا،
ولكن لا أَصلَ لَه في نَفْسِه، فلا يَثبُتُ على حالة. فإِذا حَدَثَت شِدَّةٌ أَوِ اضطِهادٌ مِن أَجلِ الكَلِمة عَثَرَ لِوَقْتِه.
وأَمَّا الَّذي زُرِعَ في الشَّوك فهُوالَّذي يَسمَعُ الكَلِمة، ويكونُ له مِن هَمِّ الحَياةِ الدُّنيا وفِتنَةِ الغِنى ما يَخنُقُ الكَلِمة فلا تُخرِجُ ثَمَرًا.
وأَمَّا الَّذي زُرِعَ في الأَرضِ الطَّيِّبة، فهُو الَّذي يَسمَعُ الكَلِمة ويَفهَمُها فيُثمِرُ ويُعطي بَعضُه مِائة، وبَعْضُه سِتِّين، وبَعضُه ثلاثين
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 6:12-19.
In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot,
and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.