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as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
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Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
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Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
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Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”
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And in a similar way these are the ones sown with seed on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
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And others are the ones sown with seed among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,
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And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”
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Parable of the Seed
And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
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and he goes to bed at night and gets up daily, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.
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Parable of the Mustard Seed
And He was saying, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?
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It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,
