Luke 8:11

New Revised Standard

"Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

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.

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,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the parable: The sede is the worde 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 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. ⁶ Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. ⁷ Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. ⁸ Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold." As he said this, he called out, "Let anyone with ears to hear listen!" ⁹ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. ¹⁰ He said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand.' ¹¹ "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. ¹² The ones on the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. ¹³ The ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe only for a while and in a time of testing fall away.

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
Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.

Genesis 8:14
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Nehemiah 8:15
and that they should publish and proclaim in all their towns and in Jerusalem as follows, "Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written."

Romans 10:15
And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

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.