And as he sowed, some seed<n id="1" /> fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground<n id="1" /> where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.<n id="2" />

Other seed fell among the thorns,<n id="1" /> and they grew up and choked it,<n id="2" /> and it did not produce grain.

But<n id="1" /> other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.&#8221;