7. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.
8. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
9. Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
10. When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
11. He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
12. so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ”