[1] And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude by the sea on the land. [2] And he taught them many things by parables, and unto them in his doctrine, [3] Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower [4] And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls came and it up. [5] some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: [6] the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. [7] And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. [8] And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. [9] And He that hath ears to hear, [10] when he was they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. [11] And unto them, it is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: [12] That seeing and not and hearing and not understand; they should be converted, and should be forgiven them.