13. Then He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
14. The sower sows the word.
15. These are those beside the path, where the word is sown. But when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word which is sown in their hearts.
16. Others, likewise, are seed sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness,
17. but have no root in themselves, and so endure for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution rises for the word’s sake, immediately they fall away.
18. And others are seed sown among thorns, the ones who hear the word.
19. But the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
20. Still others are seed sown on good ground, those who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit: thirty, sixty, or a hundred times as much.”
21. He said to them, “Is a candle brought to be put under a basket or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?
22. For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed; neither is anything kept secret except to be proclaimed.
23. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
24. He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. The measure you give will be measured for you, and to you who hear will more be given.
25. For to him who has will more be given. And from him who has not will be taken, even what he has.”
26. He said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
27. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.
28. For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the head, then the full seed in the head.