7and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;
8and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.`
9And he said to them, `He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.`
10And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,
11and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.`
13And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?