1 And again he began to teach beside the sea, and a very large crowd was gathered to him, so that he got into a boat and sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was at the sea on the land.
2 And he began to teach them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,
3 “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.
4 And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil.
6 And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered.