003:033 "Who are my mother and my brothers?" He replied.

003:034 And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him in a circle, He said,

003:035 "Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother— my sister—and my mother."

004:001 Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

004:002 Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

004:003 "Listen: the sower goes out to sow.

004:004 As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds
come and peck it up.

004:005 Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth,
and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

004:006 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having
no root it withers away.

004:007 Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up
and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.