2. Great crowds assembled around Him, so that He went into a boat and sat there. And the whole assembly stood on the shore.
3. Then He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
4. While he sowed, some seeds fell beside the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
5. But other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up because they did not have deep soil.
6. But when the sun rose, they were scorched. And because they did not take root, they withered away.
7. Some seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
8. But other seeds fell into good ground and produced grain: a hundred, sixty, or thirty times as much.
9. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10. The disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11. He answered them, “It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12. For to him who has, will more be given, and he will have abundance. But from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
13. Therefore I speak to them in parables: ‘Because they look, but do not see.And they listen, but they do not hear, neither do they understand.’
14. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘By hearing, you will hear and shall not understand,and seeing, you will see and shall not perceive;