Luke 8:4-8 While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable:

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable: ⁵ "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and birds from the sky ate them up. ⁶ Other seed fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture. ⁷ Other seed fell among the thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings. ⁸ But others fell on good soil, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold." When he had said this he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"