And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.
Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil.
And while he was sowing, some fell along the way, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
Now it happened that, as he was approaching Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way, begging.
"The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell beside the way; and it was trampled and the birds of the air devoured it.