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And he taught them many thynges in similitudes and sayde vnto them in his doctrine:
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Herken to. Beholde There wet out a sower to sowe.
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And it fortuned as he sowed that some fell by the waye syde and the fowles of the ayre came and devoured it vp.
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Some fell on stony grounde where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp because it had not deepth of erth:
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but as sone as the sunne was vp it caught heet and because it had not rotynge wyddred awaye.
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And some fell amonge the thornes and the thornes grewe vp and choked it so that it gave no frute.
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And some fell vpon good grounde and dyd yelde frute that sproge and grewe and brought forthe: some thirty folde some sixtie folde and some an hundred folde.
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And he sayde vnto them: he that hath eares to heare let him heare.
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And when he was alone they yt were aboute him with ye .xii. axed him of ye similitude.
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And he sayde vnto the. To you it is geve to knowe the mistery of the kyngdome of God. But vnto them that are wt out shall all thinges be done in similitudes:
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yt when they se they shall se and not discerne: and when they heare they shall heare and not vnderstonde: leste at any tyme they shulde tourne and their synnes shuld be forgeve the.