Parable of the Sower
Copyright © 2000 Terry Ray Flowers
"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was
scattering the seed, some fell along the path,
and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did
not have much soil.
It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But then
the sun came up, the plants
were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among
thorns,
which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil,
where it produced
a crop -- a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was
sown."
Matthew 13:3-13