As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.

It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all seeds,

Some fell among the thorn seed, and the thorns grew up and choked them out and they yielded no grain.

He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,

then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how.