9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”
10 And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables.
11 And he said to them, “To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,
12 so that ‘they may look closely and not perceive, and they may listen carefully and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.’ ”
13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones beside the path where the word is sown, and whenever they hear it, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.