Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 13

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The seeds sown on good soil are people who hear the message, and understand it, and who produce a good harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.”

The seeds sown among thorns are people who hear the message, but then life's worries and the temptation of money choke the message so that they become fruitless.

When people hear the message about the kingdom and don't understand it, the evil one comes along and rips out what was sown in them. This is what happens to the seeds sown on the path.

The seeds sown on stony ground are people who hear the message and happily accept it straight away. They last for a while, but because they don't have roots, when problems and troubles come, they quickly fall away.

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. A man found it, reburied it, and then full of joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Still other seeds fell on good soil. They produced a harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what had been planted.

Let them both grow until harvest, and then at harvest-time I'll tell the reapers to first gather the weeds, tie them up into bundles and burn them, and then gather the wheat and store it in my barn.’”