The Parable of the Sower is one of the parables of Jesus found
in three (often called the Synoptic Gospels) out of the four
Canonical gospels and in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. In
this story, a sower dropped seed on the path, on rocky ground,
and among thorns, and the seed was lost; but when seed fell on
good earth, it grew, yielding thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.
Parable Text from the Gospel of Mark (KJV)  Hearken; Behold,
there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed,
some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and
devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not
much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no
depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and
because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among
thorns, the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no
fruit. And other fell on good ground, did yield fruit that
sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and
some sixty, some an hundred. H