Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked them.
It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.
The seeds sown among thorns are people who hear the message, but then life's worries and the temptation of money choke the message so that they become fruitless.
The sun rose and scorched them and they withered because they had no roots.
Still other seeds fell on good soil. They produced a harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what had been planted.
Other seeds fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked the sprouting seeds, so they produced nothing.
Some seeds fell among thorns and as they both grew the thorns choked the plants.