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.