1 And He began to teach again by the sea, and a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat, to sit in the sea. And all the crowd was on the land facing the sea.
2 And He taught them much in parables, and said to them in His teaching:
3 “Listen! See, a sower went out to sow.
4 “And it came to be, as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the birds of the heaven came and devoured it.
5 “And other fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil. And immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
6 “But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.