3 He told them many illustrations. He said: »A farmer went out to sow.

4 »Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them.

5 »Others fell on rocky places and did not have much soil.

6 »When they grew, the sun scorched them, and because they had no root they withered and died.

7 »Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

8 »Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

9 »He that has ears let him hear.«