The sower sows the word.
you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.
He told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.
He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.
“Listen! A sower went out to sow.
like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.
“Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.
Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.
