1. On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.
2. And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore.
3. And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow,
4. and while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
5. And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have any depth of soil.
6. But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered.