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and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
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And he said to them, `He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'
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And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,
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and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
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that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'
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And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?
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He who is sowing doth sow the word;
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and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.
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`And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it,
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and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.
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`And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,