The Parable of the Sower
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1he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him,
2so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
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And
3he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
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“Listen!
4Behold, a sower went out to sow.
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And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
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Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.
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And
5when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root,
6it withered away.
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Other seed fell among
7thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
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And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and
8a hundredfold. ”
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And he said,
9“He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ”