2 and some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out,
3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who supported Him with their possessions.
4 When a large crowd had gathered together and people were coming to Him from every city, He told this parable:
5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.
6 Some fell on a rock. And as soon as it sprang up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 Yet some fell among thorns. And the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
8 And other seed fell on good ground and sprang up and yielded a hundred times the amount sown.”When He had said these things, He cried out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”