1. Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
2. He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
3. “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
4. and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.