1 On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.
2 And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore.
3 And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow,
4 and 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 But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered.
7 And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it.