² And ^(A)he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ³ “Listen! Behold, ^(B)a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ⁶ And ^(C)when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, ^(D)it withered away. ⁷ Other seed fell among ^(E)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. ⁸ And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and ^(F)a hundredfold.”

^14 (A)The sower sows ^(B)the word. ¹⁵ And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. ¹⁶ And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it ^(C)with joy. ¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but ^(D)endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^(E)they fall away.^{[a] 18} And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ¹⁹ but ^(F)the cares of ^(G)the world and ^(H)the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. ²⁰ But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and ^(I)bear fruit, ^(J)thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”