While he sowed, some seeds fell beside the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
Then He told them many things in parables, saying, “A sower went out to sow.
But other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they did not have deep soil.
As he sowed, some seed fell beside the path, and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
As He was drawing near Jericho, a certain blind man sat along the way begging.
“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.