as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”