Luke 8:8-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. ¹⁰ He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets^[a] of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak^[b] in parables, so that

The Parable of the Sower Explained

¹¹ “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.