3 "Listen; a sower went out to sow,

4 and it happened, as he was sowing, that some seed fell beside the road and the birds came and ate it.

5 Other seed fell on stony places where it had not much earth, and it sprang up at once because it had no depth of soil,

6 but when the sun came up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away.

7 Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded no grain.

8 Other seed fell into good ground and grew tall and strong and yielded thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

9 He said to them, "Let him who has ears to hear with hear."