1. Again Jesus began to teach beside Lake Galilee. The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it. The boat was out in the water, and the crowd stood on the shore at the water's edge.
2. He used parables to teach them many things, saying to them:
3. “Listen! Once there was a man who went out to sow corn.
4. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
5. Some of it fell on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn't deep.