"This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.

"What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those 'on the wayside' where the Word is sown.

"A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and was trodden under foot, and the wild birds ate it up.

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

As Jesus drew near to Jericho, there was a blind man who sat by the wayside begging.