3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: Behold, a sower went out to sow.4 And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.6 And when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: this indeed a hundredfold, that sixty, that thirty.9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.