6And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.
7And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.
8And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.
9And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.
10And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
11Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
12Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.
