20. “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
21. Yet he has no root himself but lasts only a short while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
22. “But the one sown among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word; and the worries of the world and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
23. “Now the one sown on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands. He indeed bears fruit, yielding a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown.”
24. He presented to them another parable, 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 among the wheat and went away.
26. Now when the stalk sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also appeared.
27. So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’
28. But he replied, ‘An enemy did this.’ Now the slaves say to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go out and gather them up?’
29. But he says, ‘No, for while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
30. Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time, I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the weeds and tie them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
31. He presented to them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32. It’s the smallest of all seeds; yet when it’s full grown, it’s greater than the other herbs. It becomes like a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
33. He told them another parable, “The kingdom of heaven is like hametz, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”