3 He told them many illustrations. He said: »A farmer went out to sow.4 »Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them.5 »Others fell on rocky places and did not have much soil.6 »When they grew, the sun scorched them, and because they had no root they withered and died.7 »Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.8 »Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.9 »He that has ears let him hear.«