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13 And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?
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Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
14 "The sower sows the word.
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The farmer sows the word.
15 "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
16 "In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
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Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
17 and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
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But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
18 "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,
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Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;
19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
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Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
21 And He was saying to them, "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
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He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?
22 "For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.
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For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
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If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
24 And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
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“Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.
25 "For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."
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Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”
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