Luke 8:5-9

⁵“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he scattered the seed, some fell on the road where people trampled on it and birds ate it up.

⁶Some fell on stony ground, and once the seeds had sprouted they withered for lack of moisture.

⁷Some seeds fell among thorns and as they both grew the thorns choked the plants.

⁸Some seeds fell on good earth and after they grew they produced a harvest one hundred times more than what had been sown.” After he told them this, he called out, “If you have ears, then listen!”

⁹But his disciples asked him, “What does this illustration mean?”