Matthew 13:1–9
1On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.↗
2Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.↗
3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying,“Behold, a farmer went out to sow.↗
4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.↗
5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.↗
6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.↗
7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.↗
8Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.↗
9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”↗
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