4 A large crowd gathered around Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus), including many who’d travelled out from the city, and he told them this parable:

5 “One day a farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he spread the seeds, some of them fell along the path where they got trampled on, and the birds ate them. 6 Some of the seeds landed in a rocky area where they sprouted, but then they withered up because they didn’t have enough moisture. 7 Some of the seeds landed in a patch of thistles, and as the plants started to grow, they were choked out by the thistles. 8 Some of the seeds fell onto good soil, and then the plants grew up to produce a harvest of one hundred times as much.”

As he was saying this, he was also telling them, “Anyone who wants to hear, listen carefully.”