And again he began to teach by the sea. And a very large crowd gathered to him, so that after having gone on board the boat, he sat in it, on the sea, and all the crowd were near the sea, on the land.
And he taught them many things in parables at length,
and he said to them in the course of his teaching:
Hear! Look, a sower went out to sow, and it happened that while he was sowing,
seed fell by the road and the birds came and ate it,
and seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil,
and immediately it sprang up because it did not have deep soil,
and when the sun rose, it was scorched
and it was dried up because it did not have a root.
and other seed fell amongst thorn plants, and the thorns grew up and choked it
and it did not produce fruit
And others fell into good soil and produces fruit, having come up and and grown
one bears thirty times, one sixty times and one a hundred times.
And he said ‘Whoever has ears to hear, hear!’
Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen
St Anselm