14. What Isaiah prophesied has become completely true for them: You will hear, to be sure, but never understand; and you will certainly see but never recognize what you are seeing.
15. For this people’s senses have become calloused, and they’ve become hard of hearing, and they’ve shut their eyes so that they won’t see with their eyes or hear with their ears or understand with their minds, and change their hearts and lives that I may heal them.
16. “Happy are your eyes because they see. Happy are your ears because they hear.
17. I assure you that many prophets and righteous people wanted to see what you see and hear what you hear, but they didn’t.
18. "Consider then the parable of the farmer.
19. Whenever people hear the word about the kingdom and don’t understand it, the evil one comes and carries off what was planted in their hearts. This is the seed that was sown on the path.
20. As for the seed that was spread on rocky ground, this refers to people who hear the word and immediately receive it joyfully.
21. 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.
22. As for the seed that was spread among thorny plants, this refers to those who hear the word, but the worries of this life and the false appeal of wealth choke the word, and it bears no fruit.
23. As for what was planted on good soil, this refers to those who hear and understand, and bear fruit and produce—in one case a yield of one hundred to one, in another case a yield of sixty to one, and in another case a yield of thirty to one."
24. Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like someone who planted good seed in his field.
25. While people were sleeping, an enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat and went away.