Parable of the Kingdom

 "You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never percieve." For this peoples heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them." But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and you ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. "Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in their heart. his is what was sown along the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of thew word, immediately he falls away.