^{2 Ref} He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

^{3 Ref} "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

^{4 Ref} and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.

^{5 Ref} Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

^{6 Ref} When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

^{7 Ref} Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

^{8 Ref} Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

^{9 Ref} He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."