A farmer was sowing grain in his fields.
As he scattered the seed
across the ground,
some fell beside a path, and the birds came and ate it.
some fell beside a path, and the birds came and ate it.
And some fell on rocky soil where there was little depth
of earth; the plants sprang up quickly enough in the shallow soil, but the hot sun soon scorched them and they withered and died, for they had so little root.
Other
seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns
choked out the tender blades.
But some
fell on good soil, and produced a crop
that was thirty, sixty, and even
a hundred times as much as he had planted. “If you have
ears, listen!'‘
