Luke 8:9-10
Legacy Standard Bible
The Parable of the Sower Explained
9 (A)And His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant. 10 And He said, “(B)To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that (C)seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
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Luke 8:9-10
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The Purpose of the Parables(A)
9 Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant. 10 So he said, “You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given[a] in parables, so that
‘they might look but not see,
and they might listen but not understand.’”[b]
Footnotes
- Luke 8:10 The Gk. lacks they are given
- Luke 8:10 Cf. Isa 6:9-10
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