The same day went Jesus out of the dwelling house home , and sat by the lake sea shore side. And great gatherings multitudes crowds were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship vessel boat , and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore edge beach . And he spake many things unto them in parables stories sayings , saying, Behold, a sower planter farmer went forth to plant scatter sow ; And when he sowed, some seeds kernels grains fell by the way side road path , and the creatures fowls birds came and consumed ate devoured them up: Some fell upon stony rocky hard places, where they had not much soil ground earth : and forthwith they sprung rose grew up, because they had no deepness of earth ground soil : And when the heat light sun was up, they were burned withered scorched ; and because they had no foundation support root , they withered away. And some fell among brambles thorns weeds ; and the thorns sprung up, and choked strangled suffocated them: But other fell into rich good fertile ground, and brought forth crop fruit yield , some an hundredfold hundred times century-fold , some sixtyfold sixty times sixtyfold , some thirtyfold thirty times thirtyfold . Who hath ears to listen understand hear , let him hear.