¹⁴ The seed is the word.

² And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.

³⁷ And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

²⁴ For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

²⁵ But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

⁵ Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

⁴ But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.

¹¹ Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

² As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

³ A man went out to put seed in the earth:

¹⁹ When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

²⁰ Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.