3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.

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

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

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: this indeed a hundredfold, that sixty, that thirty.

9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.