Marcos 4

Parable of the soils

3 "Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds*The AV and NKJV add ‘of the air’, following the TR and perhaps 5% of the Greek manuscripts. came and devoured it. 5 Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil. 6 But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up. 7 And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much." 9 Then He said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"