<Li> Explanation of the Parable of the Sower </Li> <Li> Explanation of the Parable of the Tares </Li> <P> The four first parables (on to Matthew 13: 34) "were spoken in presence of the multitude, and the other three again within the circle of the disciples". German liberal Protestant theologian David Strauss thought this chapter was "overwhelming with parables". At the beginning of the chapter, Jesus sits in a ship or a boat on the Sea of Galilee and addresses the crowd who stand on the shore or the beach . The Textus Receptus has inserted the definite article, (Greek: τὸ πλοῖον, to ploion), suggesting that there was a boat kept waiting for him, but other texts do not include the definite article and the Pulpit Commentary therefore argues that it was "wrongly inserted". </P> <Ul> <Li> Originally written in Koine Greek and Hebrew / Aramaic </Li> <Li> Some ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are: <Ul> <Li> Papyrus 103 (~ 200; extant: verses 55 - 56) </Li> <Li> Codex Vaticanus (~ 325 - 350) </Li> <Li> Codex Sinaiticus (~ 330 - 360) </Li> <Li> Codex Bezae (~ 400) </Li> <Li> Codex Washingtonianus (~ 400) </Li> <Li> Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (~ 450) </Li> <Li> Codex Purpureus Rossanensis (6th century) </Li> <Li> Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus (6th century; extant: verses 5 - 32, 42 - 58) </Li> <Li> Codex Sinopensis (6th century; extant: verses 7 - 47, 54 - 58) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> This chapter is divided into 58 verses . </Li> </Ul>

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