3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. 7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

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.