The sower sows the word.

“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”