Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field;
And the one sown with seed among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
But after the sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
But others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.
Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.