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Then His disciples asked Him, "What does this parable mean?"
Luke 8:9 In-Context
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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.
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Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
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His disciples asked him what this parable meant.
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He said, “The knowledge of the secrets 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.’
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“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.