Luke 8:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them^[a] out of their resources.

The Parable of the Sower

⁴ When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ⁵ ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.