1. And it came to pass afterwards that he went through the country city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,
2. and certain women who had been healed of wicked spirits and infirmities, Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
3. and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.
4. And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:
5. The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it up;
6. and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture;