Luke 8:5 Cross References - Moffatt

⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;

¹³ You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

³ He spoke at some length to them in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up.

¹⁸ Now, listen to the parable of the sower. ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

²⁴ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away. ²⁶ When the blade sprouted and formed the kernel, then the weeds appeared as well.

³⁷ So he replied, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;

² He gave them many lessons in parables, and said to them in the course of his teaching: ³ "Listen, a sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;

¹⁵ As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there — as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.

²⁶ And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth; ²⁷ he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up — he knows not how. ²⁸ (For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.) ²⁹ But whenever the crop is ready, he has the sickle put in at once, as harvest has come."

¹¹ This is what the parable means. The seed is the word of God. ¹² Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

¹ We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

²³ For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ he glances at himself, goes off, and at once forgets what he was like.