3 »Listen! A sower went out to sow.

4 And as he sowed the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

5 Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, 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 But other seed fell on good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced thirtyfold, sixty, and a hundred.«

9 And he said, »He who has ears to hear, let him hear.«