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Matthew 13
⁴ and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.
⁵ Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.
⁶ But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
⁷ Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.
⁸ And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.
⁹ He who has ears, let him hear."
¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"
¹¹ Jesus answered them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
¹² For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
¹⁴ In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ’YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;