²² And the one sown with seed among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of ^(A)the ^[a]world and the ^(B)deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it ^[b]becomes unfruitful.

³⁹ and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is ^(A)the ^[a]end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

^30 [a]but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in ^[b]the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in ^(A)the age to come, eternal life.

⁸ And his ^[a]master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of ^(A)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own ^[b]kind than the ^(B)sons of light.

³⁰ who will not receive many times as much at this time, and in ^(A)the age to come, eternal life.”