1. In that day, Jesus, departing from the house, sat down beside the sea.
2. And such great crowds were gathered to him that he climbed into a boat and he sat down. And the entire multitude stood on the shore.
3. And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.
4. And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
5. Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil.
6. But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.
7. Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.
8. Yet some others fell upon good soil, and they produced fruit: some one hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold.
9. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."