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Myles Coverdale Bible

Luke 8:9

And his disciples axed him, and sayde: What symilitude is this?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Character;   Converts;   Jesus, the Christ;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Disciples/apostles;   Knowledge;   Parables;   Understanding;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Communion (2);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Evangelism;   Lord's Prayer, the;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Disciples;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Doctrines;   Ear (2);   Luke;   Organization (2);   Parable;   Perplexity;   Religious Experience;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
King James Version (1611)
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
King James Version
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
English Standard Version
And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
New American Standard Bible
Now His disciples began asking Him what this parable meant.
New Century Version
Jesus' followers asked him what this story meant.
Amplified Bible
Now His disciples began asking Him what this parable meant.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant.
Legacy Standard Bible
And His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant.
Berean Standard Bible
Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus' disciples asked him what the story meant.
Complete Jewish Bible
His talmidim asked him what this parable might mean,
Darby Translation
And his disciples asked him [saying], What may this parable be?
Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus' followers asked him, "What does this story mean?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then his disciples asked him, demaunding what parable that was.
George Lamsa Translation
And his disciples asked him, What is this parable?
Good News Translation
His disciples asked Jesus what this parable meant,
Lexham English Bible
And his disciples asked him what this parable meant.
Literal Translation
And His disciples questioned Him, saying, What might this parable be?
American Standard Version
And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
Bible in Basic English
And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.
Hebrew Names Version
Then his talmidim asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
International Standard Version
Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.Matthew 13:10; Mark 4:10;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And his disciples asked him, What is (the signification of) this parable ?
Murdock Translation
And his disciples asked him: what meaneth this similitude?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And his disciples asked hym, saying what maner of similitude is this?
English Revised Version
And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
World English Bible
Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And his disciples asked him, What is this parable?
Weymouth's New Testament
The disciples proceeded to ask Him what this parable meant.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But hise disciplis axiden him, what this parable was.
Update Bible Version
And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
Webster's Bible Translation
And his disciples asked him, saying, What doth this parable mean?
New English Translation
Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.
New King James Version
Matthew 13:10-17; Mark 4:10-12">[xr] Then His disciples asked Him, saying, "What does this parable mean?"
New Living Translation
His disciples asked him what this parable meant.
New Life Bible
His followers asked Him what this picture-story meant.
New Revised Standard
Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But his disciples began to question him - What might, this very, parable be?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
Revised Standard Version
And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this?
Young's Literal Translation
And his disciples were questioning him, saying, `What may this simile be?'
Mace New Testament (1729)
But his disciples having ask'd him the meaning of this parable;
THE MESSAGE
His disciples asked, "Why did you tell this story?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
Later on, when they were alone, some of his cowboys asked about the stories.

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

What: Hosea 6:3, Matthew 13:10, Matthew 13:18, Matthew 13:36, Matthew 15:15, Mark 4:10, Mark 4:34, Mark 7:17, Mark 7:18, John 15:15

Reciprocal: Mark 14:22 - this

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 28:65
And amonge those same nacions shalt thou haue no quyetnesse, nether shal the sole of yi fote haue eny rest: for the LORDE shal geue the there a fearfull hert, and dasynge of eyes, and a troubled soule
Psalms 116:7
Turne agayne then vnto thy rest (o my soule) for the LORDE hath geuen the thy desyre.
Isaiah 60:8
But what are these that fle here like the cloudes, and as the doues flienge to their wyndowes?
Ezekiel 7:16
And soch as escape and fle from amonge them, shal be vpon the hilles, like as the doues in the felde: euery one shalbe afrayed, because off his owne wickednesse.
Matthew 11:28
Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are laden, and I wil ease you.
John 16:33
These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace. In ye worlde haue ye trouble, but be of good comforte, I haue ouercome the worlde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his disciples asked him,.... That is, as Mark says, "when he was alone"; after the multitude were departed, and they were by themselves, it may be in some house with other disciples:

saying, what might this parable be? what is the sense and meaning of it? According to Matthew, they asked why he spake in parables to the people; and to such a question the following words are a proper answer.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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