1. Again Yeshua began to teach by the sea. A large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the crowd was by the sea on the land.
2. He began teaching them many things by parables, and in His teaching, He said to them:
3. “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to spread some seed.
4. It happened that as he sowed, some fell beside the road; and the birds came and ate it up.
5. “Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it didn’t have much soil. It sprang up immediately, because the soil wasn’t deep.
6. But when the sun came up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7. “Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
8. “And others fell into the good soil and were producing fruit, springing up and increasing. They yielded a crop, producing thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
9. And He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10. When Yeshua was alone, those around Him with the Twelve started asking Him about the parables.
11. And He told them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God. But for those who are outside, everything is in parables, so that
12. ‘Seeing, they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand, so they may not turn back and be forgiven.’”
13. He said to them, “Don’t you grasp this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
14. The sower sows the word.
15. These are the ones beside the road where the word is sown. Whenever they hear, satan comes quickly and takes away the word that has been sown in them.
16. “These are the ones sown on rocky ground. When they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy.
17. And they have no root in themselves but last only a short while. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.