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Myles Coverdale Bible

Luke 8:11

This is the parable: The sede is the worde of God:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Character;   Converts;   Hearers;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Test-Tempt;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Christ;   Exposition of the Scriptures;   Expounds, Christ;   Teacher, Divine;   Word;   Word of God;   Words of Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Devil/devils;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;   Seed;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Communion (2);   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Meat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Evangelism;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Regeneration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Allegory;   Discourse;   Doctrines;   Ear (2);   Luke;   Organization (2);   Parable;   Religious Experience;   Seed;   Word (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Law;   Word of od;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Seed;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is the meaning of the parable:
King James Version (1611)
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
King James Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
English Standard Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
New American Standard Bible
"Now this is the parable: the seed is the word of God.
New Century Version
"This is what the story means: The seed is God's message.
Amplified Bible
"Now [the meaning of] the parable is this: The seed is the word of God [concerning eternal salvation].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.
Berean Standard Bible
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Contemporary English Version
This is what the story means: The seed is God's message,
Complete Jewish Bible
"The parable is this: the seed is God's message.
Darby Translation
But the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
"This is what the story means: The seed is God's teaching.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The parable is this, The seede is the worde of God.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the parable. The seed is the word of God.
Good News Translation
"This is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God.
Lexham English Bible
Now the parable means this: the seed is the word of God,
Literal Translation
And this is the parable: The seed is the Word of God.
American Standard Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Bible in Basic English
Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
Hebrew Names Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
International Standard Version
"Now this is what the parable means. The seed is God's word.Matthew 13:18; Mark 4:14;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But this is the parable: The seed is the word of Aloha.
Murdock Translation
But this is the similitude: The seed is the word of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The parable is this. The seede, is the worde of God.
English Revised Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
World English Bible
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.
Weymouth's New Testament
The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this is the parable.
Update Bible Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
New English Translation
"Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.
New King James Version
Matthew 13:18-23; Mark 4:13-20">[xr] "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
New Living Translation
"This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God's word.
New Life Bible
"This is what the picture-story means. The seed is the Word of God.
New Revised Standard
"Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now the parable, is this - The seed, is, the word of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Revised Standard Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The similitude is this. The seede is ye worde of God.
Young's Literal Translation
`And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,
Mace New Testament (1729)
now the meaning of the parable is this: the seed sown signifies the word of God.
THE MESSAGE
"This story is about some of those people. The seed is the Word of God. The seeds on the road are those who hear the Word, but no sooner do they hear it than the Devil snatches it from them so they won't believe and be saved.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then Jesus said, "This is what that story means. The farmer spreads God's good news to others.

Contextual Overview

4 Now wha moch people were gathered together, and haisted vnto him out of the cities, He spake by a symilitude: 5 There wente out a sower to sowe his sede, & whyle he was sowynge, some fell by the waye syde, and was trodde vnder fote, and the foules of the ayre ate it vp. 6 And some fell on stone, and whan it was spronge vp, it wythred awaye, because it had no moystnesse. 7 And some fell amonge thornes, and the thornes sprange vp with it, and choked it. 8 And some fell vpo a good grounde, and sprange vp, and bare frute an hundreth folde. Wha he sayde this he cryed: Who so hath eares to heare, let him heare. 9 And his disciples axed him, and sayde: What symilitude is this? 10 And he sayde: Vnto you it is geue, to knowe the mysteryes of the kyngdome of God, but vnto the other in parables, yt though they se it, they shulde not se it, and though they heare it, they shulde not vnderstonde. 11 This is the parable: The sede is the worde of God: 12 As for those that are by ye waye syde, they are they that heare it, afterwarde commeth the deuell, and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes, that they shulde not beleue, and be saued. 13 But they on ye stone, are soch as whan they heare it, receaue the worde with ioye, and these haue no rote: they beleue for a whyle, and in the tyme of temptacion they fall awaye.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The seed: Isaiah 8:20, Matthew 13:19, Mark 4:14-20, 1 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Corinthians 3:7, 1 Corinthians 3:9-12, James 1:21, 1 Peter 1:23-25

Reciprocal: Isaiah 55:11 - shall my Mark 2:2 - and he Mark 4:26 - as Luke 8:5 - sower John 17:17 - Sanctify Romans 10:17 - and hearing 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - the word of God Hebrews 4:12 - the word Hebrews 13:7 - word

Cross-References

Genesis 8:12
Neuertheles he taried yet seuen other dayes, and sent forth the doue, which came nomore to him agayne.
Genesis 8:14
So vpon the seuen and twentye daye of the seconde moneth the whole earth was drye.
Nehemiah 8:15
And so they caused it be declared and proclamed in all their cities, & at Ierusalem, sayenge: Go vp vnto ye mout and fetch Olyue braunches, Pynebraunches, Myrtbraunches, Palmebraunches, & braunches of thicketrees, to make bothes as it is wrytten.
Romans 10:15
But how shal they preach, excepte they be sent? As it is wrytte: How beutyfull are the fete of the yt preach peace, yt brynge good tidinges?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the parable is this, &c] "Or this is the sense of the parable", as the Arabic version renders it: "the seed is the word of God", the Gospel, as preached by Christ, his apostles, and faithful ministers, which has God for its author, is concerning the grace of God, and is what he blesses, and makes effectual to answer any good purpose.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-23.


 
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