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Luke 8:9-11
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Luke 8:9-11
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The Purpose of the Parables
9 Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. 10 He said, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets[a] of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak[b] in parables, so that
“looking they may not perceive,
and listening they may not understand.”
The Parable of the Sower Explained
11 ‘Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
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New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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