Matthew 13:7-11

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.

But others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.

The one who has ears, let him hear.” An Explanation for Parables

And the disciples came up and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

And Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.