4 A large crowd gathered around Yeshua, including many who had 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.”

4 [ref]Again Yeshua started teaching by the edge of the lake. A huge crowd gathered around him, but he had boarded a boat that was floating in the water, and all the people were there on the land. 2 From there, he taught them many different things in parables, including this one: 3 “Listen. Once there was a farmer who went to spread some seed. 4 As he spread it, some landed on the path, and the birds came and fed on it. 5 Some landed on a rocky part without a lot of soil, and it quickly sprouted in the warm, shallow soil, 6 but when the sun came up, it dried out because the roots weren’t deep, and so it just withered up. 7 Some of the seed landed in a thistle patch, and the thistles grew and choked it out, so the plants never bore a crop. 8 But some seed landed in fertile soil and it bore a harvest—some of it multiplying thirty times, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

9 Then Yeshua added, “Anyone who wants to understand, let them consider it.”

13 That same day, Yeshua went outside and sat by the lake. 2 [ref]A large crowd of people gathered around him, so he got into a boat and sat there while the crowd remained standing on the beach, 3 where he told them many parables, saying, “Listen, a farmer went out to plant seed at that time of the year. 4 As he was spreading the seed, some of it fell beside a path and the birds come and ate that seed. 5 Some fell on stony ground where there wasn’t much soil, and it sprouted immediately because the thin layer of soil was moist and warm, 6 but when the sun rose high, it was scorched and not having any deep roots, it withered up. 7 Some seed fell in a thistle patch, but the thistles grew over them and choked them out. 8 However, some seed landed on the good soil and it grew to bear a harvest—some a hundred times more, some sixty times, and some thirty times. 9 Anyone who wants to hear should strive to understand this.”