[13:1] That same day Jesus left the house and went to the lakeside, where he sat down to teach.
[13:2] The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.
[13:3] He used parables to tell them many things. “Once there was a man who went out to sow grain.
[13:4] As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
[13:5] Some of it fell on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn't deep.
[13:6] But when the sun came up, it burned the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.
[13:7] Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants.
[13:8] But some seeds fell in good soil, and the plants bore grain: some had one hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty.”
[13:9] And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”