3 »Listen, the sower went out to sow.

4 »As he sowed some seed fell by the road and the birds came and devoured it.

5 »Other seed fell on the rocky ground and did not have good soil. Immediately it sprang up, because it had no good soil

6 it became scorched when the sun came up. Then it withered because it had no root.

7 »Some seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked it so it could yield no fruit.

8 »Others fell on good ground and yielded fruit. It grew up, increased and produced thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundred fold.«

9 He continued: »He who has ears to hear let him hear.«