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And he began again to teach by the sea-side: and there was gathered to him a great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat on the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea, on the land.
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And he taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine,
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Hearken; Behold, a sower went out to sow:
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And it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the way-side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it.
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And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.
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But when the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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And other fell on good ground, and yielded fruit that sprang up, and increased, and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred.
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And he said to them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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And when he was alone, they that were about him, with the twelve, asked of him the parable.
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And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables: