Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.