Luke 8:4-10
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him,
he said in a parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed,
some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it
up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of
moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked
it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a
hundredfold." As he said this, he called out, "Let anyone with ears to
hear listen!"
Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, "To you it
has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others I
speak in parables, so that
'looking they may not perceive,
and listening they may not understand.'
