21. But he has no root in himself, so it is only for a time; then, when tribulation and persecution occur because of the word, he promptly stumbles.
22. And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.
23. Yet truly, whoever has received the seed into good soil, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, and so he bears fruit, and he produces: some a hundred fold, and another sixty fold, and another thirty fold."
24. He proposed another parable to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25. But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds amid the wheat, and then went away.
26. And when the plants had grown, and had produced fruit, then the weeds also appeared.
27. So the servants of the Father of the family, approaching, said to him: 'Lord, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how is it that it has weeds?'