4 While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable: 1
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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.
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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
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Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”