Luke 8:9

And His disciples were questioning Him, saying, “What may this allegory be?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And other fell on the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit a hundredfold.” Saying these things, He was calling, “He having ears to hear—let him hear.”

10And He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in allegories, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

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Cross References

Hosea 6:3And we know—we pursue to know YHWH, || His going forth is prepared as the dawn, || And He comes in as a shower to us, || As spring rain [and] autumn rain to the earth.”

Matthew 13:18You, therefore, hear the allegory of the sower:

Matthew 15:15And Peter answering said to Him, “Explain to us this allegory.”

Mark 4:34and without an allegory He was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to His disciples He was expounding all.

John 15:15I no longer call you servants, because the servant has not known what his lord does, and I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from My Father, I 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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