²And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore. ³And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow, ⁴and while he was sowing, some seed^b fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and^* devoured it. ⁵And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have any depth of soil. ⁶But when^* the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. ⁷And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it. ⁸But other seed fell on the good soil and produced grain,^c this one a hundred times as much and this one sixty and this one thirty. ⁹The one who has ears, let him hear!”

The Reason for the Parables

¹⁰And the disciples came up and^* said to him, “Why^d do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹And he answered and^* said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it has not been granted.

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Footnotes

bLiterally “some of which”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“rose”)
cLiterally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
dLiterally “because of what”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb