Luke 8:9
World English Bible (WEB)
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
In context
7 Some fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
8 Some fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
9 Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
10 He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
11 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:9 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
- KJV King James Version
- And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And his disciples were questioning him, saying, 'What may this simile be?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And his disciples asked him [saying], What may this parable be?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And his disciples asked him, saying, What doth this parable mean?