"To you is granted to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to them outside - everything exists as a parable,

That seeing they may see without understanding, and hearing they hear, but not discerning lest they should turn and their sins be forgiven them."

And he said to them: "Do you not understand this parable - then how will you comprehend all the parables.

The Sower sows the Word (Seed), and there are those beside the Way, and where the Word (Scriptures) is sown - and when they have (supposedly) heard - with haste comes Satan and takes away the Word that has been sown in their heart and mind!

And there are those who - likewise - are sown amongst the rocks and when they have heard the Word in haste receive it with joy.

and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while, then when tribulation and persecution comes because of the Word, with haste they become trapped.

And there are others that are sown among the thorns - these are they that have heard the Word -

but the stresses of the World and its deceitfulness in its wealth causing every lust to enter within, choke the knowledge of the Word and it becomes unfruitful.

And there are those that are sown along the Good Way - these hear the Word and accept it - and bear fruit 30, 60, 100.

: Parable, figure, comparison, placing beside, metaphor, describing earthly things comparable to heavenly things...

: See, discern, to know, understand, to feel certain of a thing by perception, to know by experience...

: Perceive, pay attention to, examine, be skilled through experience.....

: Understand, consider, comprehend, discern...

: Turn, convert, to force to return, to change and renew one's mind....

: Turn, leave, forsake, disregard, omit...

: Immediately, with haste, straight away, pronto, with lightening speed....

: Devil, Prince of Demons, Prince of Darkness, deceiver....

: Logos, word, saying, account, prophecies emanating from the Old Testament through the unveiling of the scriptures. The divine reason for all life in all times of creation from the beginning to the end. In Aramaic it means thing - The Real Thing! Anointing to teach divine things through experience...

: Heart, the mind being the seat and throne of understanding, the intelligence in its essence, the central sphere of the intellect...

: Trial, tribulation, persecution, affliction, anguish, torment, grief, distress, burdened...

: Persecution, hatred, hostility, mistreatment...

: Disappoint, offend, make to stumble, entrapment, ensnare, drawn into mistakes...

: Cares, anxieties, distractions, troubles...

: Deception, beguilement, illusion, delusion...

: Riches, wealth, abundance, prosperity...

: Lusts, craving, yearning, pining, covet...

: Root, shoot, pathway, divine passageway.

: Seed, offspring, posterity, idea, reason, brainwave, new birth, renaissance.

: Ground, land, metaphorically - that which has landed from above, heart, mind, soul, spirit, Way of God, Pathway.