Luke 8:4 While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:

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New International Version (©1984)
While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:

New Living Translation (©2007)
One day Jesus told a story in the form of a parable to a large crowd that had gathered from many towns to hear him:

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable:

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When a large crowd was coming together, and those from the various cities were journeying to Him, He spoke by way of a parable:

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

International Standard Version (©2008)
Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from every city, he said in a parable:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And when a great crowd had gathered, and they were coming to him from all the cities, he said in a parable:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When a large crowd had gathered and people had come to Jesus from every city, he used this story as an illustration:

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when many people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:

American King James Version
And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:

American Standard Version
And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when a very great multitude was gathered together, and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

Darby Bible Translation
And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:

English Revised Version
And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:

Webster's Bible Translation
And when many people were collected, and had come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:

Weymouth New Testament
And when a great crowd was assembling, and was receiving additions from one town after another, He spoke a parable to them.

World English Bible
When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

Young's Literal Translation
And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-23.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when much people were gathered together,.... To Jesus, as he was by the sea side, the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias:

and were come to him out of every city; of Galilee, to hear him preach, and see miracles:

he spake by a parable; the following things.

Vincent's Word Studies

Out of every city (κατὰ πολίν)

City by city.

Were come (ἐπιπορευμένων)

The present participle denoting something in progress. They kept coming. Rev., resorted.

Geneva Study Bible

{1} And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

(1) The same gospel is sown everywhere, but does not everywhere yield the same fruit, and this is only due to the fault of men themselves.

Wesley's Notes

8:4 Mt 13:1; Mr 4:1.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Lu 8:4-18. Parable of the Sower.

(See on [1596]Mr 4:3-9, [1597]Mr 4:14-20.)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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; to take heed lest we hear carelessly and slightly, lest we entertain prejudices against the word we hear; and to take heed to our spirits after we have heard the word, lest we lose what we have gained. The gifts we have, will be continued to us or not, as we use them for the glory of God, and the good of our brethren. Nor is it enough not to hold the truth in unrighteousness; we should desire to hold forth the word of life, and to shine, giving light to all around. Great encouragement is given to those who prove themselves faithful hearers of the word, by being doers of the work. Christ owns them as his relations.

Matthew 13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.

Matthew 13:2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.

Mark 4:1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge.

Luke 8:5 "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.

Additions Assembling Cities Collected Crowd Form Gathered Gathering Journeying Large Multitude Parable Receiving Resorted Simile Spake Spoke Story Teaching Town Various

Chuza City Collected Contributed Form Gathered Gathering Great Herod's Jesus Joanna Multitude Parable Resorted Simile Steward Support Susanna Teaching Together Various Wife Women

And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

Mt 13:2 Mr 4:1

Luke Chapter 8 Verse 4

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