Luke 8:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ Then when a large crowd assembled and people from every town were coming to Jesus, He told them this parable [i.e., a brief story to illustrate His teaching]:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And when a very great throng was gathering together and people from town after town kept coming to Jesus, He said in a parable:

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:

Common English Bible

⁴ When a great crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one city after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Then, when a very numerous crowd was gathering together and hurrying from the cities to him, he spoke using a comparison:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And when a very great multitude was gathered together, and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

Luke 8:4 Cross References

Matthew 13:1

On that [same] day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down on the shore of the lake [i.e., Lake Galilee].

Luke 8:5

“A farmer went out [to his field] to plant grain. And as he sowed [i.e., scattering seeds by hand], some of it landed along side of the road; it was stepped on by people and [eventually] birds of the sky came and ate it.