3 »Listen, the sower went out to sow.4 »As he sowed some seed fell by the road and the birds came and devoured it.5 »Other seed fell on the rocky ground and did not have good soil. Immediately it sprang up, because it had no good soil6 it became scorched when the sun came up. Then it withered because it had no root.7 »Some seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked it so it could yield no fruit.8 »Others fell on good ground and yielded fruit. It grew up, increased and produced thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundred fold.«9 He continued: »He who has ears to hear let him hear.«