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