Matthew 13:1-9 ▼

1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side.

2 and there was so great a croud of people got about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a bark, where he sat, while the people all stood on the shore.

3 Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.

4 and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:

5 another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:

6 so that as the sun arose it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away.

7 another part fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked it.

8 but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.

9 he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.