Matthew 13:3-14

3And He told them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a sower went out to spread some seed.

4As he was scattering the seed, some seeds fell by the road; and the birds came and ate them up.

5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil. They sprang up immediately, because the soil wasn’t deep.

6But when the sun came up, they were scorched; and because they had no roots, they withered away.

7Other seeds fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew and choked them out.

8But others fell on good soil and were producing fruit. They yielded a crop—some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

9He who has ears, let him hear.”

10Then the disciples came to Him and said, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

11And He replied to them, “To you has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

12For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have plenty. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

13For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor do they understand.

14”And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will keep on hearing but will never understand; you will keep looking, but will never see.