16. `And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
17. for verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men did desire to see that which ye look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which ye hear, and they did not hear.
18. `Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:
19. Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding--the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.
20. `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,