Luke 8:1-10 ▼

1 After this, Jesus traveled from one city and village to another, preaching and spreading the good news about God's kingdom. The Twelve were with him,

2 as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

3 Joanna, the wife of Herod's household manager Chuza; Susanna; and many others. These women continued to support them out of their personal resources.

4 Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from every city, he said in a 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 Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

7 Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew with them and choked them.

8 But others fell on good soil, and when they came up, they produced 100 times as much as was planted.| As he said this, he called out, |Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!|

9 Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.

10 So he said, |You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that 'they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'|