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Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretation

Luke 8:1-15

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Chapter 8
1 And it happened afterward that he went through city and village, proclaiming and preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and the twelve with him, 2 and some women who had been healed from evil spirits and diseases: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who were serving them from their possessions. 4 And when a large crowd came together, and people from town after town came to him, he said through a parable: 5 The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the birds of heaven devoured it. 6 And another fell on the rock, and as it sprang up, it withered because it had no moisture. 7 And another fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns grew up together and choked it. 8 And another fell into the good earth, and having sprung up, it produced fruit a hundredfold. Saying these things, he cried out: The one having ears to hear, let him hear. 9 But his disciples asked him what this parable might be. 10 But he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, so that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand." 11 Now this is the parable: the seed is the word of God. 12 But those beside the way are the ones who heard; then the Devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they might not believe and be saved. 13 But those on the rock—who, when they hear, receive the word with joy—and these do not have root, who believe for a time and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And the one fallen into the thorns—these are the ones who have heard, and going along under worries and wealth and pleasures of life, are choked together and do not bear fruit. 15 But the one in the good soil, these are the ones who, in a good and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast and bear fruit in endurance.