Luke 8:8
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Cross-reference
Luke 8:15 interprets the good soil as those who hear, retain, and persevere — explaining the fruitful crop here.
In Luke 6:47, hearing and doing are linked, paralleling the parable's emphasis on hearing the word and producing fruit.
In Luke 14:35, Jesus uses the same phrase 'He who has ears to hear, let him hear' about salt, reinforcing the call to heed his teaching.
Genesis 26:12 describes Isaac reaping a hundredfold because of God's blessing—the same hundredfold yield Jesus uses as the measure of fruitful hearing in the parable.
Matthew 11:15 records Jesus using the same call 'Whoever has ears, let them hear'—reinforcing the consistent invitation to truly listen to his words.
Matthew 13:8 is the parallel account of the same parable — recording yields of 100, 60, and 30 instead of just 100 here.
Matthew 13:9 is the parallel account of the Parable of the Sower, repeating Jesus' call to hear—directly corresponding to the end of Luke's version.
Matthew 13:23 interprets the good soil as those who hear and understand, yielding varying fruit — echoing the same lesson.
Mark 4:8 is the parallel account — also records a crop yielding thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.
Mark 4:20 interprets the good soil as those who hear and accept the word, producing fruit — explaining the same image.
In Revelation 2:7, the same exhortation 'He who has ears to hear' appears, linking the call to hear the parable to hearing the Spirit's message to the churches.
In Revelation 2:11, the identical phrase 'He who has an ear, let him hear' echoes Jesus' call, now applied to promises for overcomers.