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

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

5 Some fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of soil.

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

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

8 But other seed fell on good soil and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

9 He who has ears, let him hear.«