22. for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.
23. If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'
24. And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;
25. for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'
26. And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
27. and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;
28. for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;
29. and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'
30. And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?