3 E explicou-lhes muitas coisas através de ilustrações, tais como esta narrativa:Um lavrador andava a semear nos seus campos.

4 Enquanto espalhava a semente na terra, alguma caiu ao lado dum caminho, e vieram os pássaros e comeram-na.

5 Outra caiu em terra pedregosa e pouco profunda; as plantas depressa nasceram no chão pouco espesso, mas logo o calor do Sol as queimou, pelo que murcharam e morreram por terem tão fraca raiz

7 Outras sementes cairam entre espinhos, que abafaram as folhas tenras

8 Outras, porém, caíram em chão bom, e deram uma colheita de trinta, sessenta ou mesmo cem vezes o que tinha sido semeado

9 Quem sabe ouvir, então que ouça!

3 And he spake unto them many things, in parables, saying: Lo! the sower went forth to sow,

4 and, as he sowed, some, indeed, fell by the pathway, and, the birds, came, and devoured it;

5 And, some, fell on the rocky places, where it had not much earth,and, straightway, it sprang up, because if had no depth of earth;

6 and, the sun arising, it was scorched, and, because it had no root, it withered away;

7 And, some, fell upon the thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it;

8 But, some, fell upon the good ground, and did yield fruit,this, indeed a hundred fold, and, that, sixty, and, the other, thirty.

9 He that hath ears, let him hear.