1 That same day Jesus left the house and went to the___________________ lakeside, where he sat down to teach.
2 The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he got into a___________________ boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.
3 He used___________________ parables to tell them many things. "Once there was a man who went out to sow corn.
4 As he scattered the___________________ seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the___________________ birds came and ate it up.
5 Some of it fell on___________________ rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn’t deep.
6 But when the sun came up, it___________________ burnt the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.
7 Some of the seed fell among___________________ thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants.
8 But some seeds fell in___________________ good soil, and the plants produced corn; some produced a hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty."
9 And Jesus concluded, "Listen, then, if you have ears!"
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