Luke 8:5 Cross References - Murdock

⁵ A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the side of the path, and was trodden upon, and a bird devoured it.

¹³ Ye are the salt of the earth! But if the salt become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned? It is fit for nothing; but to be thrown out, and be trodden under foot by men.

³ An he discoursed with them much, by similitudes. And he said, Behold, a sower went forth to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell upon the side of a path: and a bird came and devoured it.

¹⁸ But hear ye the similitude of the seed. ¹⁹ Every one that heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, the evil one cometh and snatcheth away the seed sowed in his heart: this is what was sowed by the side of the path.

²⁴ Another similitude he proposed to them, and said: The kingdom of heaven is like to a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ And while people were asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ And when the plant shot up and bore fruits, then appeared also the tares.

³⁷ And he answered, and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of God.

² And he taught them much by similitudes. And in his teaching, he said: ³ Hear ye: Behold a sower went forth to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell on the side of the path; and a bird came, and devoured it.

¹⁵ And those by the side of the path, are they in whom the word is sown; and as soon as they have heard it, Satan cometh, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

²⁶ And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, ²⁷ and should sleep and rise, by night and by day, and the seed should grow an shoot up, he knoweth not how. ²⁸ For the earth bringeth forth the fruit; first the plant, and subsequently the ear, and at last the complete wheat in the ear. ²⁹ And when the fruit is ripe, immediately cometh the sickle, because the harvest hath arrived.

¹¹ But this is the similitude: The seed is the word of God. ¹² And those by the side of the path, are they that hear the word, and the enemy cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, that they may not believe and live.

¹ Therefore we ought to be exceedingly cautious, in regard to what we have heard, lest we fall away.

²³ For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror: ²⁴ for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was.