Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”