Luke 8:9
Luke chapter 8 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
Context
v.8And other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
v.9This passage
v.10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.
- Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
- Hosea 6:3
And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
- Mark 7:17
And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
- Mark 4:10
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parables.
- Mark 4:34
and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.