WPNT(i)
2 Then He began teaching them many things by parables and said to them in His teaching:
3 “Listen! Yes, a sower went out to sow.
4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
5 Some fell on the rocky area where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil.
6 But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.
7 And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And some fell into the good ground, and coming up and growing it started to produce fruit—yielding thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”
9 Then He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”