and while he was sowing, some seed[a] fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and[b] devoured it. And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have any depth of soil. But when[c] the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:4 Literally “some of which”
  2. Matthew 13:4 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Matthew 13:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“rose”)