13. He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
14. The farmer sows the word.
15. The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
16. These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
17. They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
18. Others are those who are sown amongst the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,