¹⁴ The farmer sows the word.

² Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

³⁷ He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

²³ having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

²⁴ For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

²⁵ But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.

⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,

⁶ which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

⁴ Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

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

² even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

³ "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

²⁰ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.