The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

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

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.

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.”