Mark 4:8-18

8 But other seed fell into rich soil and produced grain; it sprouted, and grew, and yielded a crop -- thirty, sixty, even a hundred times what was sown."
9 And he concluded, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!"
10 When Yeshua was alone, the people around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables.
11 He answered them, "To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,
12 so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!"
13 Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?
14 The sower sows the message.
15 Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.
16 Likewise, those receiving seed on rocky patches are people who hear the message and joyfully accept it at once; but they have no root in themselves. So they hold out for a while, but as
17 soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immedi ately fall away.
18 Others are those sown among thorns -- they hear the message;
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