God’s Word Translation
Luke 8:8
8Others were planted on good ground. When they came up, they produced a hundred times as much as was planted.” After he had said this, he called out, “Let the person who has ears listen!”
Luke 8:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
- New International Version (NIV)Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
- New King James Version (NKJV)But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold.” When He had said these things He cried, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Context of Luke 8:8
6Others were planted on rocky soil. When the plants came up, they withered because they had no moisture. 7Others were planted among thornbushes. The thornbushes grew up with them and choked them. Others were planted on good ground. When they came up, they produced a hundred times as much as was planted.” After he had said this, he called out, “Let the person who has ears listen!” 9His disciples asked him what this story meant. 10Jesus answered, “Knowledge about the mysteries of God’s kingdom has been given ⌞directly⌟ to you. But it is given to others in stories. When they look, they don’t see, and when they hear, they don’t understand.
Read all of Luke 8Luke 8:8 word by word
καὶ ἕτερον ἔπεσεν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀγαθήν, καὶ φυὲν ἐποίησεν καρπὸν ἑκατονταπλασίονα. ταῦτα λέγων ἐφώνει· ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.¶Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Andκαίkai · andG2532
- otherἕτεροςheteros · otherG2087
- fellπίπτωpiptō petō · to collapseG4098
- onἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
- goodἀγαθόςagathos · goodG18
- groundγῆgē · earth: soilG1093
- sprang upφύωphuō · to growG5453
- and bareποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
- fruitκαρπόςkarpos · fruitG2590
- an hundredfoldἑκατονταπλασίωνhekatontaplasiōn · a hundred timesG1542
- And when he had saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
- these thingsοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
- he criedφωνέωphōneō · to callG5455
- He that hathἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
- earsοὖςous · earG3775
- to hearἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
Cross-references for Luke 8:8
- Luke 8:15The seeds that were planted on good ground are people who also hear the word. But they keep it in their good and honest hearts and produce what is good despite what life may bring.
- Matthew 13:8But other seeds were planted on good ground and produced grain. They produced one hundred, sixty, or thirty times as much as was planted.
- Mark 4:8But other seeds were planted on good ground, sprouted, and produced thirty, sixty, or one hundred times as much as was planted.”
- John 1:12However, he gave the right to become God’s children to everyone who believed in him.
- John 3:3Jesus replied to Nicodemus, “I can guarantee this truth: No one can see God’s kingdom without being born from above.”
- Ephesians 2:10God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do.
- Colossians 1:10We ask this so that you will live the kind of lives that prove you belong to the Lord. Then you will want to please him in every way as you grow in producing every kind of good work by this knowledge about God.
- Genesis 26:12Isaac planted ⌞crops⌟ in that land. In that same year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had planted because the Lord had blessed him.
- Proverbs 1:20Wisdom sings her song in the streets. In the public squares she raises her voice.
- Proverbs 8:1Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise its voice?
- Proverbs 20:12The ear that hears, the eye that sees— the Lord made them both.
- Jeremiah 13:15Listen, and pay attention! Don’t be arrogant. The Lord has spoken.
- Jeremiah 25:4“Even though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you, you haven’t listened or paid attention to them.
- Matthew 11:15Let the person who has ears listen!
- Matthew 13:9Let the person who has ears listen!”
- Revelation 2:7“Let the person who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the privilege of eating from the tree of life, which stands in the paradise of God, to everyone who wins the victory.
Commentaries on Luke 8:8
- 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. 8He who has ears to hear, let him hear: This meant everyone who was willing to listen.Read the comment
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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
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