17. for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see them, and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear them.
18. Ye, therefore, hear the parable of the sower.
19. From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.
20. But he that is sown on the rocky places--this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,