Matthew 13:15-24

15For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back — and I would heal them.

16“Blessed are your eyes because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.

17For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but didn’t see them, to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.

18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

19When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

20And the one sown on rocky ground — this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

21But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

22Now the one sown among the thorns — this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

23But the one sown on the good ground — this is one who hears and understands the word, who does produce fruit and yields: some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown.”

24He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.