ISV(i)
2 He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,
3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow.
4 As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.
5 Others fell on stony ground, where they didn’t have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn’t deep.
6 But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn’t have any roots, they dried up.
7 Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn’t produce anything.
8 But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown.”
9 He added, “Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!”