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But others fell into rich soil and produced grain, a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as had been sown.
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Those who have ears, let them hear!"
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Then the talmidim came and asked Yeshua, "Why are you speaking to them in parables?"
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He answered, "Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to them.
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For anyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have plenty; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.
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Here is why I speak to them in parables: they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding.
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That is, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Yesha`yahu which says, `You will keep on hearing but never understand, and keep on seeing but never perceive,
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because the heart of this people has become dull -- with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, so as not to see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t'shuvah, so that I could heal them.'
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But you, how blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear!
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Yes indeed! I tell you that many a prophet and many a tzaddik longed to see the things you are seeing but did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them.
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"So listen to what the parable of the sower means.