2. and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
3. and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.
4. When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
5. “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
6. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.