and it came to pass while he was sowing, some fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured it.

And these are they who are sown on good ground; whosoever hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred.

If I shall send them away to their homes fasting, they will faint on the road; indeed some of them have come from afar.

And again he sent another; and they slew him, and many others beating some, killing others.