Luke 8 · Verse 9

Luke 8:9

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
Luke 8:9, King James Version

Luke 8:9 in other translations

BSBThen His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
WEBThen his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
ASVAnd his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
YLTAnd his disciples were questioning him, saying, ‘What may this simile be?'
DARBYAnd his disciples asked him saying, What may this parable be?
BBEAnd his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.
WebsterAnd his disciples asked him, saying, What doth this parable mean?

What does Luke 8:9 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 8:4-21

There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear…

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Luke 8:9 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἘπηρώτωνEpērōtōnWere askingG1905
δὲdethenG1161
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
οἱhoitheG3588
μαθηταὶmathētaidisciplesG3101
αὐτοῦautouof HimG846
τίςtisWhatG5101
αὕτηhautēthisG3778
εἴηeiēwould meanG1510
ἡhētheG3588
παραβολή;parabolēparableG3850

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 8:9

  • Matthew 13:18

    Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

  • Matthew 13:10

    And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

  • Mark 4:10

    And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

  • Matthew 13:36

    Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

  • Mark 7:17-18

    And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

  • John 15:15

    Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

  • Hosea 6:3

    Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

  • Mark 4:34

    But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

  • Matthew 15:15

    Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

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What.
Ho 6:3; Mt 13:10,18,36; 15:15; Mr 4:10,34; 7:17,18; Joh 15:15

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Context

  • Luke 8:8

    And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • Luke 8:9

    And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

  • Luke 8:10

    And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

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Luke 8:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y sus discípulos le preguntaron, diciendo, qué era esta parábola.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ses disciples l’interrogèrent, disant: Qu’est-ce que cette parabole?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Seine Jünger aber fragten ihn und sprachen: Was mag dieses Gleichnis sein?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Interrogabant autem eum discipuli ejus, quæ esset hæc parabola.