Women Accompanying Jesus
1 Soon afterward he went on
1through cities and villages, proclaiming and
2bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,
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and also
3some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities:
4Mary, called Magdalene,
5from whom seven demons had gone out,
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and
6Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
The Parable of the Sower
4 7And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,
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8“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
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And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up,
9it withered away, because it had no moisture.
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And some fell among
10thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
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And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded
11a hundredfold. ”As he said these things, he called out,
12“He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ”
The Purpose of the Parables
9 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,