Luke 8:9

And his disciples asked him, What is (the signification of) this parable?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And other fell into ground good and fair, and sprang up, and made fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these (words), he cried, Whoever hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10But he said to them, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Aloha; but to those who are the rest in similitudes is it spoken; that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18You, then, attend to the comparison of the seed:

Matthew 15:15And Shemun Kipha answered and said, My Lord, expound to us this parable.

Mark 4:34And without parable did he not speak with them: but to his disciples, between him and them, he explained all.

John 15:15No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto 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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