Luke 8:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. ⁸ Some fell into good soil, and when it grew it produced a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “If you have ears to hear, then hear!”^(A)

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.^(B)