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And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.
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And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,
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Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.
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And it came to pass as he sowed, one fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured it.
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And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprung up out [of the ground] because it had no depth of earth;
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and when the sun arose it was burnt up, and because of its not having any root, it withered.
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And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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And another fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and bore, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.
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And he said, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.