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Tyndale New Testament

Luke 8:11

The similitude is this. The seede is ye 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.
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 moch people were gadred to gether and were come to him out of all cities he spake by a similitude. 5 A sower went out to sowe his seede: and as he sowed some fell by the waye syde and it was troden vnder fete and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp. 6 And some fell on ston and assone as it was spronge vp it widdred awaye because it lacked moystnes. 7 And some fell amonge thornes and ye thornes spronge vp with it and choked it. 8 And some fell on good grounde and sproge vp and bare frute an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges he cryed: He that hath eares to heare let him heare. 9 And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this? 10 And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde. 11 The similitude is this. The seede is ye worde of God. 12 Thoose yt are besyde the waye are they that heare and afterwarde cometh ye devyll and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes lest they shuld beleve and be saved. 13 They on the stonnes are they which when they heare receave the worde with ioye. But these have noo rootes which for a whyle beleve and in tyme of temtacio goo 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

Romans 10:15
And how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written: how beautifull are the fete of them which bringe glad tydynges of peace and bringe glad tydynges of good thinges.

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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