Mark 4:1-6

1 And he began again to teach by the sea side, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

2 And he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine,

3 Hearken; Behold, the sower went out to sow;

4 and it came to pass as he sowed some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

5 And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth;

6 but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.