Luke 8:9

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

Text-Critical English 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 soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundred times more than what was sown.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

10He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest I speak in parables, so that ‘they may see but not perceive, and hear but not understand.’

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18“So hear what the parable of the sower means:

Matthew 15:15Then Peter said to him in response, “Explain this parable to us.”

Mark 4:34He did not speak to them without using a parable, but privately he explained everything to his disciples.

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 I have made known to you everything 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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