Luke 8:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When a large crowd was gathering, as people were coming to him from town after town, he said in a parable:

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

And when a very great throng was gathering together and people from town after town kept coming to Jesus, He said in a parable:

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

When a great crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one city after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Then, when a very numerous crowd was gathering together and hurrying from the cities to him, he spoke using a comparison:

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

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

“A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell on a path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.