6. And when the sun came up, it was scorched, and because it had not taken root, it withered away.
7. Other seed [of the same kind] fell among thorn plants, and the thistles grew and pressed together and utterly choked and suffocated it, and it yielded no grain.
8. And other seed [of the same kind] fell into good (well-adapted) soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing, and yielded up to thirty times as much, and sixty times as much, and even a hundred times as much as had been sown.
9. And He said, He who has ears to hear, let him be hearing [and let him consider, and comprehend].