3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." 9 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

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.