Matthew 13:1-9

New Testament for Everyone

The parable of the sower

13 That very day Jesus went out of the house and sat down beside the sea. ² Large crowds gathered around him, so he got into a boat and sat down. The whole crowd was standing on the shore.

³ He had much to say to them, and he said it all in parables.

“Listen!” he said. “Once there was a sower who went out to sow. ⁴ As he sowed, some seed fell beside the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Some seed fell on rocky soil, where it didn’t have much earth. It sprang up at once because it had no depth of soil. ⁶ But when the sun was high it got scorched, and it withered because it didn’t have any root. ⁷ Other seed fell in among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it. ⁸ Other seed fell into good soil, and produced a crop, some a hundred times over, some sixty, and some thirty times over. ⁹ If you’ve got ears, then listen!”