some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choaked it, so that it yielded no fruit.

but after it is sown, it grows up, and becometh larger than other plants of the pulse kind, and shooteth out its branches so high, that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shadow.

but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.

however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.