[8:4] People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable:
[8:5] “Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, where it was stepped on, and the birds ate it up.
[8:6] Some of it fell on rocky ground, and when the plants sprouted, they dried up because the soil had no moisture.
[8:7] Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up with the plants and choked them.
[8:8] And some seeds fell in good soil; the plants grew and bore grain, one hundred grains each.” And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”