3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: "Listen, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. 7 And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them. 8 But others fell on the good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"