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and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away.
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Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
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And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."
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And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.
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And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;
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so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven."
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And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
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The sower sows the word.
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And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them.
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And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;