13. And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then shall you understand all the parables?
14. “The sower sows the word.
15. “These, then, are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16. “And likewise these are the ones sown on rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy,
17. and they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. Then when pressure or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
18. “And others are those sown among thorns, these are they who hear the word,
19. and the worries of this age, and the deceit of riches, and the desires for other matters, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.
20. “And those sown on good soil, are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirtyfold, and some sixty, and some a hundred.”
21. And He said to them, “Would a lamp be brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be put on a lampstand?
22. “For whatever is hidden shall be revealed, and whatever has been kept secret, shall come to light.
23. “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
24. And He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it shall be measured to you, and more shall be added to you who hear.
25. “For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.”
26. And He said, “The reign of Elohim is as when a man scatters seed on the ground,
27. then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed sprouts and grows, he himself does not know how.
28. “For the soil yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the completed grain in the head.
29. “And when the crop is ready, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
30. And He said, “To what shall we compare the reign of Elohim? Or with what parable shall we present it?
31. “Like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth,