Matthew 13:2-9

Moffatt(i) 2 but, as great crowds gathered to him, he entered a boat and sat down, while all the crowd stood on the beach. 3 He spoke at some length to them in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow, 4 and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil; 6 but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root. 7 Some other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 8 Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold. 9 He who has an ear, let him listen to this."