Luke 8:9

And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this?

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And some fell on good grounde and sproge vp and bare frute an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges he cryed: He that hath eares to heare let him heare.

10And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18Heare ye therfore the similitude of the sower.

Matthew 15:15Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare vnto vs this parable.

Mark 4:34And with out similitude spake he no thinge vnto them. But when they were aparte he expounded all thinges to his disciples.

John 15:15Hence forth call I you not servauntes: for the servaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you have I called frendes: for all thinges that I have hearde of my father I have opened 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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