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that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'
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And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?
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He who is sowing doth sow the word;
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and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.
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`And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it,
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and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.
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`And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,
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and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
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`And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
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And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?
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for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.