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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB The Parable of the Sower. 1* On
that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea.a
2Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat
and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. 3* And
he spoke to them at length in parables,* saying: “A sower went
out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and
birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky ground, where it
had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not
deep, 6and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered
for lack of roots. 7Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns
grew up and choked it. 8But some seed fell on rich soil, and
produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold. 9Whoever has
ears ought to hear.” The Purpose of Parables. 10The disciples
approached him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11* He said to them in reply, “Because knowledge of the
mysteries of the kin