[4:10] And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
[4:11] And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,
[4:12] so that “they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.”
[4:13] And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
[4:14] The sower sows the word.
[4:15] And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
[4:16] And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
[4:17] And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
[4:18] And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
[4:19] but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
[4:20] But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”