Luke 8:11
New International Version
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

New Living Translation
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word.

English Standard Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Berean Standard Bible
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Berean Literal Bible
And the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

King James Bible
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

New King James Version
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

New American Standard Bible
“Now this is the parable: the seed is the word of God.

NASB 1995
“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

NASB 1977
“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

Amplified Bible
“Now [the meaning of] the parable is this: The seed is the word of God [concerning eternal salvation].

Christian Standard Bible
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

American Standard Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But this is the parable: the seed is the word of God.”

Contemporary English Version
This is what the story means: The seed is God's message,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

English Revised Version
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This is what the story illustrates: The seed is God's word.

Good News Translation
"This is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God.

International Standard Version
"Now this is what the parable means. The seed is God's word.

Literal Standard Version
And this is the allegory: the seed is the word of God,

Majority Standard Bible
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

New American Bible
“This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

NET Bible
"Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

New Revised Standard Version
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

New Heart English Bible
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Weymouth New Testament
The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.

World English Bible
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Young's Literal Translation
'And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Parable of the Sower
10He 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.’ 11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:18
Consider, then, the parable of the sower:

Mark 4:13
Then Jesus said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

Luke 8:12
The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.


Treasury of Scripture

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

The seed.

Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Matthew 13:19
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Mark 4:14
The sower soweth the word.

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Luke 8
1. Women minister unto Jesus of their own means.
4. Jesus, after he had preached from place to place,
9. explains the parable of the sower,
16. and the candle;
19. declares who are his mother, and brothers;
22. rebukes the winds;
26. casts the legion of demons out of the man into the herd of pigs;
37. is rejected by the Gadarenes;
43. heals the woman of her bleeding;
49. and raises Jairus's daughter from death.














(11) The seed is the word of God.--This takes the place in St. Luke's interpretation of "the word of the kingdom" in St. Matthew. The "word of God" is obviously to be taken in its widest sense, as including every form by which a revelation from God is conveyed to the mind of man.

Verses 11-15. - The Lord's interpretation of the parable of the sower. Verse 11. - The seed is the Word of God. It was his own sad experience the Master was relating. The picture was of things, too, which had already happened in the case of many of his own true servants, the prophets. It mirrored, too, the many future failures and the few future successes of the listening disciples; it warned them not to be deluded by appearances, not to be discouraged by apparent failure. The Word, of course, in the first instance is his own teaching; it comprehends, however, any preaching or teaching, whether of prophet of the past or minister of the future, winch tries faithfully to copy his own.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Now
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

this
αὕτη (hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is the meaning
Ἔστιν (Estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

of the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

parable:
παραβολή (parabolē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3850: From paraballo; a similitude, i.e. fictitious narrative, apothegm or adage.

The
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

seed
σπόρος (sporos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4703: Seed for sowing. From speiro; a scattering, i.e. seed.

is
ἐστὶν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word
λόγος (logos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

of God.
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


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