Bible Verses

But they have no roots, so it lasts only a short time. No sooner does trouble or persecution come because of the word than they fall away. 

Other people hear the word like rocky ground. As soon as they hear it, they accept it with joy. 

 Those along the path where the seed fell are people who hear the word, but as soon as they listen to it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

 What the sower is sowing is the word. 

Explanation of the Parable of the Sower Jesus said to them: “Don’t you get this parable? So, how will you understand any of the others?

so, that: the more they see, they don’t perceive; the more they hear, they don’t understand; otherwise they would be converted and pardoned.”

He answered them: “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But for those outside, everything comes in parables,

Purpose of the Parables When the crowd dispersed, some of those present with the Twelve asked about the parables.

He added: “Listen then, if you have ears.”

But some seed fell on good soil, grew, increased, and yielded grain; some seed produced thirty times as much, some sixty, and some one hundred times as much.”