New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Luke 8:9
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Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
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And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
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Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
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And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
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And His disciples were asking Him, “What may this parable be?”
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Luke 8
7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
9 Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
10 He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’
11 Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
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