Listen

Listen!
A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed,
some seed fell along the path, and the birds came
and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where
it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once
because the soil was not deep.
When the sun came up it was scorched, and
because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up
and choked it, and it did not produce grain.
But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain,
sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much,
some sixty, and some a hundred times.

And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”
Mark 4:3-9 (NET)