Mark 4:1-6

1 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.

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

3 Hearken; Behold, a 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.

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 had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.