Luke 8:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic 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, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.