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 And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

4 And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

5 And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

6 And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

7 And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

8 And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

9 He who has ears, let him give ear.