Mark 4:2-9

Goodspeed(i) 2 He taught them many lessons in figures, and said to them in the course of his teaching, 3 "Listen: A sower went out to sow, 4 and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, 6 but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root. 7 Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain. 8 And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold." 9 And he said, "Let him who has ears be sure to listen!"