Luke 8:9

And the disciples asked him, saying: What does this parable mean?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

In Context

8And other seed fell into good ground, and sprung up, and produced fruit a hundred-fold. When he had said these things, he cried: He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

10He replied: To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that when they see, they may not see, and when they hear, they may not understand.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18Hear you, therefore, the parable of the sower.

Matthew 15:15But Peter answered and said to him: Explain to us this dark saying.

Mark 4:34But without a parable he did not speak to them; but when alone, he explained all things to his disciples.

John 15:15I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:5-22

The Parable of the Sower. 4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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