004:009 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:010 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 004:011 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 004:012 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"{Isaiah 6:9-10} 004:013 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 004:014 The farmer sows the word. 004:015 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 004:016 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 004:017 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 004:018 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 004:019 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 004:020 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." 004:021 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand? 004:022 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. 004:023 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:024 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. 004:025 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him." 004:026 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 004:027 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 004:028 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 004:029 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come." 004:030 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 004:031 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown