Luke 8:9

Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8But other seed fell into good ground, and when it grew up, it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Saying these things He was calling out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

10And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are in parables, that 1 ‘Seeing they may not see, 1 And hearing they may not understand.’ 1 The Parable of the Sower Explained

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18“Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

Matthew 15:15Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain to us this parable.”

Mark 4:34And apart from a parable He did not speak to them, however, privately to His disciples, he would explain all things. 1 Jesus Calms a Storm

John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I 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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