4 While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: 5 “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up.

The Parable of the Sower - And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out.

A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.

This story draws in all Jesus' sensitivity to the growth of faith, spoken in words and images, in ordinary places, that everyone cold understand.

A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

The seed is the word of God. 12 The ones on the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts.

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