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After this, Yeshua traveled about from town to town and village to village, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom of God. With him were the Twelve,
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and a number of women who had been healed from evil spirits and illnesses -- Miryam (called Magdalit), from whom seven demons had gone out;
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Yochanah the wife of Herod's finance minister Kuza; Shoshanah; and many other women who drew on their own wealth to help him.
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After a large crowd had gathered from the people who kept coming to him from town after town, Yeshua told this parable:
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"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the path and was stepped on, and the birds flying around ate it up.
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Some fell on rock; and after it sprouted, it dried up from lack of moisture.
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Some fell in the midst of thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
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But some fell into rich soil, and grew, and produced a hundred times as much as had been sown." After saying this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!"
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His talmidim asked him what this parable might mean,
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and he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but the rest are taught in parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.
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"The parable is this: the seed is God's message.