2. along with certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had departed,
3. and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who were ministering to him from their resources.
4. Then, when a very numerous crowd was gathering together and hurrying from the cities to him, he spoke using a comparison:
5. "The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell beside the way; and it was trampled and the birds of the air devoured it.
6. And some fell upon rock; and having sprung up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
7. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns, rising up with it, suffocated it.