³ “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. ⁴ And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed^[a] fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil. ⁶ And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. ⁷ And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.^{[b] 8} And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain,^[c] coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop^[d]—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.^{[e] 9} And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”