Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;

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