1. And he began again to teach by the sea-side: and there was gathered to him a great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat on the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea, on the land.
2. And he taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine,
3. Hearken; Behold, a sower went out to sow:
4. And it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the way-side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it.
5. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.