Footnote

c According to the three Gospel accounts of Jesus’ parable, the seed is choked by the pains and pleasures of this world: “The anxieties of this system of things,” “the deceptive power of riches,” “the desires for the rest of the things,” and the “pleasures of this life.”​—Mark 4:19; Matthew 13:22; Luke 8:14; Jeremiah 4:3, 4.