Matthew 13:6-16 (New International Version)
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But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.
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Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred,1 sixty or thirty times what was sown.
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He who has ears, let him hear."2
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The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?"
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He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven3 has been given to you,4 but not to them.
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Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.5
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This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.6
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In them is fulfilled7 the prophecy of Isaiah: " 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'a8
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But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.9
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