3 "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

4 As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

5 Others fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

6 But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they did not have any roots, they dried up.

7 Others fell among thornbushes, and the thornbushes came up and choked them, and they did not produce anything.

8 But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced thirty, sixty, or one hundred times what was sown."

9 He added,"Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"