Moffatt(i)
4 As a large crowd was gathering and as people were resorting to him from town after town, he addressed them in a parable.
5 "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;
6 some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;
7 some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up along with it and choked it;
8 some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."
9 The disciples questioned him about the meaning of the parable;
10 so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.