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as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
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Joanna the wife of Herod’s household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women were ministering to them out of their own means.
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While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable:
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“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
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Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.