And it happened that while [he] was sowing, {some seed} fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

[It is] like a mustard seed that when sown on the ground, [although it] is the smallest of all the seeds that [are] on the ground,

And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have [any] depth of soil.

And other [seed] fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

And other [seed] fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore [a crop]--one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred [times as much].

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows--{he does not know how}.