6. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
7. Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
8. Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
9. Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
10. He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
11. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.