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 \v 31 Then his mother and his brothers came and stood outside. They sent for him, summoning him.
-\v 32 And a crowd sat around him and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they are looking for you."
+\v 32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they are looking for you."
 
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 \v 33 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
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-\v 1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd gathered around him, so he stepped into a boat in the sea, and sat down. The whole crowd was beside the sea on the shore.
-\v 2 And he taught them many things in parables, and he said to them in his teaching,
+\v 1 Again he began to teach beside the sea, and a large crowd gathered around him. He stepped into a boat that was on the sea, and he sat down in it. The whole crowd was on the shore beside the sea.
+\v 2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching, this is what he said to them. 
 
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 \v 3 "Listen, the farmer went out to sow his seed.
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 \v 7 Other seed fell among the thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up and choked them, and they did not produce any grain.
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 \v 8 Other seed fell into good soil and it produced grain while growing up and increasing, and some brought forth thirty times as much, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
-\v 9 And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!"
+\v 9 Then he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!"
 
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-\v 13 And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables?
+\v 13 Then he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables?
 \v 14 The farmer who sows his seed is the one who sows the word.
-\v 15 Some are the ones that fall beside the road, where the word was sown. And when they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
+\v 15 These are the ones that fall beside the road, where the word was sown, but when they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
 
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-\v 16 And some are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
+\v 16 These are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
 \v 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.
 
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-\v 18 And others are the ones sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
-\v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
-\v 20 Then there are those who are the ones sown in the good soil. They hear the word and receive it and produce fruit: some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
+\v 18 And the others are the ones that were sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
+\v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things enter in and choke the word, and it does not produce a crop.
+\v 20 Then those that were sown in the good soil are the ones who hear the word and receive it, and they produce crops—thirty, sixty, or a hundred times what was sown."
 
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