3. and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who were ministering to him from their resources.
4. Then, when a very numerous crowd was gathering together and hurrying from the cities to him, he spoke using a comparison:
5. "The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell beside the way; and it was trampled and the birds of the air devoured it.