² And great crowds gathered about him, ^(A)so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach.

³ Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And ^(A)he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

The Parable of the Sower

^4 (A)And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, ^5 (B)“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶ And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, ^(C)it withered away, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among ^(D)thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. ⁸ And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded ^(E)a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, ^(F)“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

The Parable of the Sower

4 Again ^(A)he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, ^(B)so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

³⁰ And great crowds came to him, bringing with them ^(A)the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,

^25 (A)And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the ^(B)Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.