But others fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them out.
But the seed sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.
But when the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.
But others fell on good ground and it was yielding fruit: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
And some seed fell into the thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
And other seed fell among thorns, and when the thorns grew up with it, they choked it.