"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
"Now listen to the explanation of the parable about the farmer planting seeds:
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
"To you then I will explain the parable of the Sower.
"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Jesus then said, ‘Listen to me now. I will tell you what this story about the farmer means.
`Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:
“Listen to the picture-story of the man who planted seeds in the ground.
“Therefore, hear the parable of the Sower.
This is what the parable of the sower means.
“Now here is the explanation of the story I told about the farmer planting grain:
“Therefore listen to the parable of the sower.
“Hear then the parable of the sower.
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
“So listen to the parable of the sower:
Listen then to the [meaning of the] parable of the sower:
“So listen to the meaning of that story about the farmer.
“Study this story of the farmer planting seed. When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn’t take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person’s heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road.
“So listen carefully to the parable of the sower.
“Hear then the parable of the sower:
“Hear then the parable of the sower.
Hear therefore the similitude of the sower.
“Listen, then, and learn what the parable of the sower means.
Therefore hear ye the parable of the sower.
“All right, then,” Jesus continued, “this is what the sower story is all about.
Now listen to the meaning of the story about the farmer:
“Hear then the parable of the sower.
“Now listen to the parable of the sower. When a man hears the message of the kingdom and does not grasp it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is like the seed sown by the road-side. The seed sown on the stony patches represents the man who hears the message and eagerly accepts it. But it has not taken root in him and does not last long—the moment trouble or persecution arises through the message he gives up his faith at once. The seed sown among the thorns represents the man who hears the message, and then the worries of this life and the illusions of wealth choke it to death and so it produces no ‘crop’ in his life. But the seed sown on good soil is the man who both hears and understands the message. His life shows a good crop, a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
“Hear, then, the parable of the sower.
‘Hear then the parable of the sower.
“Consider then the parable of the farmer.
“Listen then to the [meaning of the] parable of the sower:
“Hear then the parable of the sower:
“Hear then the parable of the sower.
“Listen then to the parable of the sower.
“So listen to the ·meaning of that story about the farmer [parable of the sower].
“You then, hear the parable of the sower.
“Hear then the parable of the sower.
“Listen! Here is the meaning of the story of the farmer.
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
“So listen to what the parable of the sower means.
`So listen to hear what the story means, about the man who sowed the seed.'
‘Hear then the parable of the sower.
You, therefore, listen to the mashal of the sower.
“Listen to what the story about the farmer means.
“Therefore listen to the parable of the sower.
“So listen to the meaning of that story about the farmer:
“So listen to the meaning of that story about the farmer.
“You, therefore, listen to the parable of the sower:
‘Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
“You therefore, hear the parable of the one having sown:
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