5. “And others fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.
6. “But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered.
7. “And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.
8. “And others fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
10. And the taught ones came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11. And He answering, said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.