^14 (A)The sower sows ^(B)the word.

Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria

⁴ Now ^(A)those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

^11 (A)Now the parable is this: The seed is ^(B)the word of God.

² And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.

³⁷ He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of ^(A)the kingdom and ^(B)does not understand it, ^(C)the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

^23 (A)since you have been born again, ^(B)not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through ^(C)the living and abiding word of God; ²⁴ for

And this word ^(F)is the good news that was preached to you.

³ “Listen! Behold, ^(A)a sower went out to sow.

⁵ because of ^(A)the hope ^(B)laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in ^(C)the word of the truth, the gospel, ⁶ which has come to you, as indeed ^(D)in the whole world it is ^(E)bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you ^(F)heard it and understood ^(G)the grace of God in truth,

^2 (A)just as those who ^(B)from the beginning were ^(C)eyewitnesses and ^(D)ministers of ^(E)the word ^(F)have delivered them to us,