Worsley(i)
1 And He began to teach again by the sea-side, and there was gathered unto Him a great multitude; so that He went into a ship, and sat on board, and all the people were by the sea, upon the shore.
2 And He taught them many things by similitudes, and said to them in his instruction,
3 hearken, Behold a sower went out to sow:
4 and in sowing, some fell by the way-side, and the birds came and ate it up:
5 and some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth, and it sprang up immediately, because it had not depth of earth;
6 but when the sun rose, it was burnt up, and withered because it had no root:
7 and some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit:
8 and other fell on good ground, and yielded fruit springing up and increasing; and produced some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred-fold.
9 And He said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And when He was apart from the multitude, those that were about Him with the twelve asked Him concerning the parable.
11 And he said unto them, To you it is granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto them that are without all things are delivered in parables:
12 that in seeing they may see and not perceive, and in hearing they may hear and not understand, least they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them.