3 E seus discursos foram uma série de parábolas.

4 Disse ele: Um semeador saiu a semear. E, semeando, parte da semente caiu ao longo do caminho; os pássaros vieram e a comeram.

5 Outra parte caiu em solo pedregoso, onde não havia muita terra, e nasceu logo, porque a terra era pouco profunda.

6 Logo, porém, que o sol nasceu, queimou-se, por falta de raízes.

7 Outras sementes caíram entre os espinhos: os espinhos cresceram e as sufocaram.

8 Outras, enfim, caíram em terra boa: deram frutos, cem por um, sessenta por um, trinta por um.

9 Aquele que tem ouvidos, ouça.

3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.

4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.

6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop —a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear."