"Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.

And He spoke to them many things in parables, saying: "Behold, a sower went out to sow.

And as he sowed, some seed fell alongside the road; and the birds came and devoured them.

"Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand, then the evil [one] comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the [seed] being sown beside the road.

Another parable He set before them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man sowing good seed in his field.

But when the stalk had sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

And He was teaching them many [things] by parables, and said to them in His teaching:

And it happened, as he sowed, that some [seed] fell alongside the road; and the birds came and devoured it.

And He said, "Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast the seed on the ground,

For the earth produces fruit of itself: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head of grain.

And those beside the road are they that hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, lest they believe and be saved.

On account of this we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this [one] is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

for he observed himself and has gone away, and immediately forgot what sort of [man] he was.

You have rejected all that depart from Your statutes; for their inner thoughts are unrighteousness.

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and to be trampled underfoot by men.

And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.