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New King James Version (NKJV)

Matthew 13
⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
⁵ Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
⁶ But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
⁷ And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
⁸ But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"
¹¹ He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ’Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;