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The sower sows the message.
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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.
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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
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soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immedi ately fall away.
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Others are those sown among thorns -- they hear the message;
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but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.
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But those sown on rich soil hear the message, accept it and bear fruit -- thirty, sixty or a hundredfold."
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He said to them, "A lamp isn't brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn't you put it on a lampstand?
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Indeed, nothing is hidden, except to be disclosed; and nothing is covered up, except to come out into the open.
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Those who have ears to hear with, let them hear!"
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He also said to them, "Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you -- and more besides!