Luke 8:9

And his disciples were questioning him, saying, 'What may this simile be?'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8'And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.' These things saying, he was calling, 'He having ears to hear — let him hear.'

10And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

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Cross References

Hosea 6:3And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

Matthew 13:18'Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

Matthew 15:15And Peter answering said to him, 'Explain to us this simile.'

Mark 4:34and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

John 15:15no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make 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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