WNT(i)
2 when a vast multitude of people crowded round Him. He therefore went on board a boat and sat there, while all the people stood on the shore.
3 He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow.
4 As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.
5 Some falls on rocky ground, where it has but scanty soil. It quickly shows itself above ground, because it has no depth of earth;
6 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.
7 Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.
8 But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.
9 Listen, every one who has ears!"