Luke 8:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. ⁸ And some fell onto good soil, and when it grew it produced a crop of a hundredfold.”

After saying this, he cried out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

The Purpose of Parables.^{[a] 9} Then his disciples asked him what the parable meant.