Luke 8:9

Then his disciples asked him, saying. What might this parable mean?

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 ground, and shooting up, produced fruit an hundred fold. So saying, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables: that seeing they may not perceive, and hearing may not comprehend.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Matthew 15:15Then Peter answering said unto him, Explain to us this parable.

Mark 4:34And without a parable spake he not unto them; but in private he explained them all to his disciples.

John 15:15I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of 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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