3 "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some [seed] fell alongside the road; and the birds came and devoured it.

5 And some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

6 But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

7 And some [seed ]fell into the thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 But other [seed ]fell on good ground, and it was yielding fruit coming up and growing, and it was producing-some thirty[fold], some sixty[,] and some a hundred."

9 And He said, "He that has ears to hear, let him hear!"