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Again he began to teach beside the sea. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the sea and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
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He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
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"Listen! A sower went out to sow.
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And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
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Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil.
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And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away.
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Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
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Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold."