" And as he was sowing, some seed fell alongside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. " What do you think the birds symbolize?

"And he again started teaching beside the sea. And a very great crowd gathered near him, so that he went aboard a boat and sat out on the sea, but all the crowd beside the sea were on the shore.  So he began to teach them many things with illustrations and to say to them in his teaching:  “Listen. Look! The sower went out to sow.  And as he was sowing, some [seed] fell alongside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.  And other [seed] fell upon the rocky place where it, of course, did not have much soil, and it immediately sprang up because of not having depth of soil.  But when the sun rose, it was scorched, and for not having root it withered.  And other [seed] fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.  But others fell upon the fine soil, and, coming up and increasing, they began to yield fruit, and they were bearing thirtyfold, and sixty and a hundred.”  So he added the word: “Let him that has ears to listen listen.” Mr4:3

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