Matthew 13:3
Then he told them many truths in parables. "Behold," he said, "the sower went forth to sow;
Matthew 13:8
But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew 13:23
"But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."
Mark 4:26-32
"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;
1 Peter 2:9
But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.