When a largecrowdwas coming together,and thosefrom the variouscitieswere journeyingto Him, He spokeby wayof a parable:
That dayJesuswentout of the houseand was sittingby the sea.
"The sowerwentout to sowhis seed;and as he sowed,somefellbesidethe road,and it was trampled under footand the birdsof the airateit up.
