2. and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
3. and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
4. And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,
5. “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
6. And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
7. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.