3. Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.
4. People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable:
5. “Once there was a man who went out to sow corn. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, where it was stepped on, and the birds ate it up.
6. Some of it fell on rocky ground, and when the plants sprouted, they dried up because the soil had no moisture.