12. This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.
13. "Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
14. The farmer scatters the word.
15. This is the meaning of the seed that fell on the path: When the word is scattered and people hear it, right away Satan comes and steals the word that was planted in them.
16. Here’s the meaning of the seed that fell on rocky ground: When people hear the word, they immediately receive it joyfully.
17. Because they have no roots, they last for only a little while. When they experience distress or abuse because of the word, they immediately fall away.