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Again Yeshua began to teach by the lake, but the crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the crowd remained on shore at the water's edge.
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He taught them many things in parables. In the course of his teaching, he said to them:
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"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
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As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up.
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Other seed fell on rocky patches where there was not much soil. It sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow;
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but when the sun rose, the young plants were scorched; and since their roots were not deep, they dried up.
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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked it; so that it yielded no grain.
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But other seed fell into rich soil and produced grain; it sprouted, and grew, and yielded a crop -- thirty, sixty, even a hundred times what was sown."