Luke 8:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. ¹⁰He 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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Footnotes

Luke 8:10 Or mysteries
Luke 8:10 Gk lacks I speak

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