And other seeds felled among thorns; and the thorns waxed up, and strangled them.
it shall bring forth thorns and briars to thee, and thou shalt eat herbs of the earth;
But he that is sown in thorns, is this that heareth the word, and the busyness of this world, and the fallacy [or the falseness] of riches strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.
But when the sun was risen, they sweltered [or they burned for the heat], and for they had not root, they dried up.
But other seeds felled into good land, and gave fruit; some an hundred-fold, another sixtyfold, another thirty-fold.
And other felled down into thorns, and [the] thorns sprang up, and strangled it, and it gave no fruit.
And other fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up together, and strangled it.