isv Luke:8:1-15
isv@Luke:8:1 @ After this, Jesus traveled from one city and village to another, preaching and spreading the good news about God's kingdom. The twelve were with him,
isv@Luke:8:2 @ as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
isv@Luke:8:3 @ Joanna, the wife of Herod's household manager Chuza; Susanna; and many others. These women continued to support them out of their personal resources.
isv@Luke:8:4 @ Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to him from every city, he said in a parable:
isv@Luke:8:5 @ “A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate them up.
isv@Luke:8:6 @ Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.
isv@Luke:8:7 @ Others fell among thornbushes, and the thornbushes grew with them and choked them.
isv@Luke:8:8 @ But others fell on good soil, and when they came up, they produced a hundred times as much as was planted.” As he said this, he called out,“Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!”
isv@Luke:8:9 @ Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.
isv@Luke:8:10 @ So he said,“You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are givenin parables, so that‘they might look but not see,and they might listen but not understand.’”
isv@Luke:8:11 @ “Now this is what the parable means. The seed is God's word.
isv@Luke:8:12 @ The ones on the path are the people who listen, but then the devil comes and takes the word away from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
isv@Luke:8:13 @ The ones on the stony ground are the people who welcome the word with joy when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.
isv@Luke:8:14 @ The ones that fell among the thornbushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.
isv@Luke:8:15 @ But the ones on the good soil are the people who also hear the word but hold on to it with good and honest hearts and produce a crop through endurance.”
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