1. And again, he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered to him, so much so that, climbing into a boat, he was seated on the sea. And the entire crowd was on the land along the sea.
2. And he taught them many things in parables, and he said to them, in his doctrine:
3. "Listen. Behold, the sower went out to sow.
4. And while he was sowing, some fell along the way, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
5. Yet truly, others fell upon stony ground, where it did not have much soil. And it rose up quickly, because it had no depth of soil.
6. And when the sun was risen, it was scorched. And because it had no root, it withered away.
7. And some fell among thorns. And the thorns grew up and suffocated it, and it did not produce fruit.
8. And some fell on good soil. And it brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased, and yielded: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred."