Luke 8:9

His disciples asked him what this parable meant.

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

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8But some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was a hundred times greater.” After Jesus had said these things, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

10He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but for others I speak in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

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Cross References

Hosea 6:3Let us know Yahweh; 1 let us press on to know Yahweh. 1 His coming out is as sure as the dawn; 1 he will come to us like the showers, 1 like the spring rains that water the land.” 1

Matthew 13:18Listen then to the parable of the farmer who sowed his seed.

Matthew 15:15Peter responded and said to Jesus, “Explain this parable to us.”

Mark 4:34and he did not speak to them without a parable. But when he was alone, he explained everything to his own disciples.

John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that 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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