3 "Ouçam! Um lavrador saiu para semear. 4 Enquanto espalhava as sementes pelo campo, algumas caíram à beira do caminho, e as aves vieram e as comeram. 5 Outras sementes caíram em solo rochoso e, não havendo muita terra, germinaram rapidamente, 6 mas as plantas logo murcharam sob o calor do sol e secaram, pois não tinham raízes profundas. 7 Outras sementes caíram entre espinhos, que cresceram e sufocaram os brotos, sem nada produzirem. 8 Ainda outras caíram em solo fértil e germinaram, cresceram e produziram uma colheita trinta, sessenta e até cem vezes maior que a quantidade semeada". 9 Então ele disse: "Quem tem ouvidos para ouvir, ouça com atenção!".

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!"