^{8 Ref} `And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.' These things saying, he was calling, `He having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

^{9 Ref} And his disciples were questioning him, saying, `What may this simile be?'

^{10 Ref} And he said, `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.