And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth;

It is like a grain of mustard-seed ??less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth;

As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there ??as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.

and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;