A large crowd was gathering, and people from town after town kept coming to him, so he spoke to them in a parable:
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2and so did some women who had been freed from evil spirits and diseases: Mary, the one called Magdalene, out of whom seven demons had gone; 3Joanna, the wife of Chuza, an official of Herod; Susanna; and many others, who supported them out of what they owned. 4A large crowd was gathering, and people from town after town kept coming to him, so he spoke to them in a parable: 5“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he scattered it, some fell along the path, where it was trampled and the birds of the sky ate it up. 6Other seed dropped on rock, and when it came up it dried out, because it had no moisture.
