^{13 Ref} He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

^{14 Ref} The farmer sows the word.

^{15 Ref} These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

^{16 Ref} These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

^{17 Ref} They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

^{18 Ref} Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

^{19 Ref} and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

^{20 Ref} These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."