13 And he said to them, 'Do you not understand this parable?' How then can you understand all the parables?

14 The sower sows the word.

15 That which is sown by the wayside signifies those in whom the word is sown, but to whom, when they hear, Satan immediately comes, and snatches away the word that is sown in their hearts.

16 In like manner also that which is sown in a stony place signifies those who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy,

17 but have no root in them, and are not constant; then, when tribulation or persecution for the word comes, they are immediately offended.

18 That which is sown in thorns signifies those who hear the word,

19 but in which the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and other desires, entering into them, choke the word, and it is without fruit.

20 And that which is sown in good ground signifies those who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundredfold.

21 And he said to them, 'Is this why a candle is brought to put it under a bushel or under a bed?' Is it not to put it on a candlestick?

22 There is nothing hidden that will not be made manifest, and nothing is hidden that will not come out.

23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear!

24 And he said to them, 'Take note of what you hear: with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and it will be added to you that hear.

25 For he who has shall be given, but he who does not have shall have even that which he has shall be taken away from him.

26 And he said, 'The kingdom of God is like if a man cast seed in the ground,