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And He began again to teach by the seaside. And there was gathered unto Him a great multitude, so that He entered into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
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And He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in His doctrine:
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"Hearken! Behold, there went out a sower to sow.
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And it came to pass as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
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And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.
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But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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And other fell on good ground; and it yielded fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth: some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundredfold."