1. Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,
2. and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Miriam who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
3. and Yochanah, the wife of Kuza, Herod’s steward; Shoshanah; and many others; who served them from their possessions.
4. When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
5. “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
6. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
7. Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
8. Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”