Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

yet once sown, comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under the shelter of it."

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.