Luke 8:1-7

1 Shortly after this He visited town after town, and village after village, proclaiming His Message and telling the Good News of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,
2 and certain women whom He had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases--Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had come,
3 and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, all of whom contributed to the support of Jesus and His Apostles.
4 And when a great crowd was assembling, and was receiving additions from one town after another, He spoke a parable to them.
5 "The sower," He said, "goes out to sow his seed; and as he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and is trodden upon, or the birds of the air come and peck it up.
6 Another part drops upon the rock, and after growing up it withers away for want of moisture.
7 Another part falls among the thorns, and the thorns grow up with it and stifle it.
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