20. The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
21. But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
22. The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.
23. But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”
24. He presented them with another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.
25. But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.