7 Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.
8 But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
9 The one who has ears had better listen!”
10 Then the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.