Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.
He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.
But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.
Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.
Another part falls among the thorns, and the thorns grow up with it and stifle it.