Luke 8:4-8 When a great multitude was coming together and some from every city were crowding upon him, he spoke to them with an illustration:

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ When a great multitude was coming together and some from every city were crowding upon him, he spoke to them with an illustration: ⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the roadside and was trodden on, and the birds of heaven ate it up. ⁶ Other seed fell on the rock, and when it sprang up it withered away because it had no moisture. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. ⁸ Other seed fell into the good ground, and grew up and yielded a harvest a hundred fold." When he said this, he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear, hear."