Luke 8:9

Luke 8:9

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.

8 But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded¹ a crop a hundredfold.” When He had said these things He cried, ^a“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

The Purpose of Parables

9 ^aThen His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”

10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the¹ mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that
^a‘Seeing they may not see,
And hearing they may not understand.’

The Parable of the Sower Explained

11 ^a“Now the parable is this: The seed is the ^bword of God.

12 Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Asked (ephrwtwn). Imperfect of eperwtaw (epi and erwtaw) where Mark 4:10 has hrwtwn (uncompounded imperfect), both the tense and the use of epi indicate eager and repeated questions on the part of the disciples, perhaps dimly perceiving a possible reflection on their own growth.

What this parable might be (tiv auth eih h parabolh). A mistranslation, What this parable was (or meant). The optative eih is merely due to indirect discourse, changing the indicative estin (is) of the direct question to the optative eih of the indirect, a change entirely with the writer or speaker and without any change of meaning (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1043f.).

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