3. and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.
4. And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:
5. The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it up;
6. and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture;
7. and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it choked it;
8. and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
9. And his disciples asked him saying, What may this parable be?