Matthew 13:15-24

15For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

16“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

17For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

19When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

20The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

21But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

22The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

23But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

24He presented them with another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.