Luke 8:9

Luke 8:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
• New International Version (NIV)His disciples asked him what this parable meant.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”

Context of Luke 8:9

7and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with [it] choked it; 8and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him [saying], What may this parable be? 10And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. 11But the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Luke 8:9 word by word

Ἐπηρώτων δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ τίς αὕτη εἴη ἡ παραβολή;Read the interlinear

• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• askedἐπερωτάωeperōtaō · to questionG1905
• parableπαραβολήparabolē · parableG3850
• beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510

Cross-references for Luke 8:9

• Hosea 6:3and we shall know, — we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.
• Matthew 13:10And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
• Matthew 15:15And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.
• Mark 4:10And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him [as to] the parables.
• Mark 7:17And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
• John 15:15I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

Commentaries on Luke 8:9

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-15Verses 4-15 See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-23.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-21Verses 4-21 There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear; to take heed lest we hear…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-15The parable of the farmer scattering seed shows that people respond in different ways to the message of Jesus about God’s kingdom.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 8:9

• Agriculture
• Character
• Converts
• Jesus, the Christ
• Word of God

In the dictionaries

• Choke
• Fall
• Jeopardy
• Parable
• Possess
• Somebody
• Strive
• Jesus Christ
• Luke, the Gospel of
• mystery, hidden truth

Commentaries on Luke 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings