1. And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land,
2. and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:
3. `Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;
4. and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;
5. and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,