Luke 8:9
Then his disciples questioned him as to what this parable might mean.
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In The King James Version
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
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Cross References
Hosea 6:3He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live in his sight. We will understand, and we will continue on, so that we may know the Lord. His landing place has been prepared like the first light of morning, and he will come to us like the early and the late rains of the land.
Matthew 13:18Listen, then, to the parable of the sower.
Matthew 15:15And responding, Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”
Mark 4:34But he did not speak to them without a parable. Yet separately, he explained all things to his disciples.
John 15:15I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever 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 →