1. And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.
2. And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,
3. Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.
4. And it came to pass as he sowed, one fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured it.
5. And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprung up out of the ground because it had no depth of earth;
6. and when the sun arose it was burnt up, and because of its not having any root, it withered.