Luke 8:4-8
Lexham English Bible
The Parable of the Sower
4 And while[a] a large crowd was gathering and they were going to him from town after town, he spoke by means of a parable: 5 “The sower went out to sow his seed, and while he was sowing, some seed[b] fell on the side of the path and was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. 6 And other seed fell on the rock, and when it[c] came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture. 7 And other seed fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with it[d] and[e] choked it. 8 And other seed fell on the good soil, and when it[f] came up, it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he[g] said these things, he called out, “The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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- Luke 8:4 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was gathering”)
- Luke 8:5 Literally “some of which”
- Luke 8:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came up”) which is understood as temporal
- Luke 8:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Luke 8:7 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“grew up with”) has been translated as a finite verb
- Luke 8:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came up”) which is understood as temporal
- Luke 8:8 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“said”) which is understood as temporal
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