15 These are those beside the path, where the word is sown. But when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word which is sown in their hearts.
16 Others, likewise, are seed sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness,
17 but have no root in themselves, and so endure for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution rises for the word’s sake, immediately they fall away.
18 And others are seed sown among thorns, the ones who hear the word.
19 But the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
20 Still others are seed sown on good ground, those who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit: thirty, sixty, or a hundred times as much.”
21 He said to them, “Is a candle brought to be put under a basket or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?