3 In teaching, he said to them, Attend, behold the sower went out to sow.

4 And as he sowed, part of the seed fell by the way-side, and the birds came and picked it up.

5 Part fell upon rocky ground, where it had little mold. This sprang sooner, because there was no depth of soil.

6 But after the sun had beaten upon it, it was scorched, and having no root, it withered away.

7 Part fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and stifled it, so that it yielded nothing.

8 Part fell into good ground, and sprang up, and became so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred.

9 He added. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.