Luke 8:9

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

10So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

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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 this parable to us.”

Mark 4:34But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples.

John 15:15“I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.

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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