Matthew 13:18 BBE

¹⁶  But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

¹⁷  For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

¹⁸  Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

¹⁹  When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

²⁰  And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;