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And that [same] day Jesus went out from the house and sat down by the sea.
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And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the shore.
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And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow:
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and as he sowed, some [grains] fell along the way, and the birds came and devoured them;
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and others fell upon the rocky places where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang up out of [the ground] because of not having [any] depth of earth,
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but when the sun rose they were burned up, and because of not having [any] root were dried up;
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and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;
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and others fell upon the good ground, and produced fruit, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.
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He that has ears, let him hear.
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And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?