Matthew 13:2-9

2And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

3Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.

5Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

6But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

7And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

8But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

9He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”