Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.

And he said to them, “I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.”