19. and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20. `And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
21. And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch--not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?
22. for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.
23. If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'
24. And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;
25. for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'
26. And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,