Luke 8:5 first tells the seed falling on the path — the very story that verse 12 now explains allegorically.

Matthew 13:19 gives the identical interpretation: the evil one snatches the word sown in the heart — a synoptic parallel.

Mark 4:15 parallels this exactly: Satan immediately takes away the word sown in them — another synoptic account.

Revelation 12:9 identifies the devil as the deceiver who leads the world astray — the same one who snatches the word here.

Zechariah 7:12 describes hearts hard as flint that refuse to listen — paralleling the hardened path where the word is snatched away.

Mark 4:4 is the parallel parable account where the seed on the path is eaten by birds — interpreted here as the devil taking the word.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 depicts Satan's deception that prevents belief in the truth — paralleling the devil snatching the word here.

Mark 16:16 states that belief leads to salvation — the very thing the devil prevents by taking the word here.