Mark 4:2-9 And he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine,

EJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine, ³ Hearken; Behold, the sower went out to sow; ⁴ and it came to pass as he sowed some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. ⁵ And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth; ⁶ but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. ⁸ And other fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth: some thirty and some sixty and some a hundred. ⁹ And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.