Luke 8:4-10

The Parable of the Sower

4  a And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, 5  b “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up c it withered away, because it had no moisture. 7 And some fell among d thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. 8 And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded e a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, f “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

The Purpose of the Parables

9 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, 10 he said, g “To you it has been given to know h the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so i that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
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