Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it sprang up right away, since it didn’t have deep soil.

The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the ripe grain on the head.

It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”