4 Ja kun hän kylvi, kävi niin, että osa siemenistä putosi tien oheen, ja linnut tulivat ja söivät jyvät.

5 Osa putosi kallioiseen paikkaan, missä jyville ei ollut paljon maata. Ne nousivat kohta oraalle, koska maata ei ollut syvälti,

6 mutta auringon noustua oraat helteessä kuivettuivat, koska niillä ei ollut juurta.

7 Osa taas putosi ohdakkeiden sekaan, ja ohdakkeet kasvoivat ja tukahduttivat oraan, eikä siitä saatu satoa.

3 Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;

4 and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;

5 and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,

6 and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;

7 and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;

8 and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.

9 And he said to them, He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.