Matthew 13:20

13:20 The ¹  seed sown on rocky ground ²  is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Matthew 7:26

7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matthew 13:22-23

13:22 The ³  seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth ⁴  choke the word, ⁵  so it produces nothing. 13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ⁶ 

[13:20]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:20]  ² tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.

[13:22]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:22]  ⁴ tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

[13:22]  ⁵ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

[13:23]  ⁵ tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).