003:031 By this time His mother and His brothers arrive, and standing
outside they send a message to Him to call Him.
003:032 Now a crowd was sitting round Him; so they tell Him, "Your mother
and your brothers and sisters are outside, inquiring for you."
003:033 "Who are my mother and my brothers?" He replied.
003:034 And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him
in a circle, He said,
003:035 "Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there
is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--
my sister--and my mother."
004:001 Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake,
and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him.
He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little
way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close
to the water.
004:002 Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language;
and in His teaching He said,
004:003 "Listen: the sower goes out to sow.
004:004 As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds
come and peck it up.
004:005 Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth,
and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;
004:006 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having
no root it withers away.
004:007 Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up
and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.
004:008 But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return:
it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty,
or a hundred-fold."