Luke 8:4
Good News Translation
People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable:

New Revised Standard Version
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable:

Contemporary English Version
When a large crowd from several towns had gathered around Jesus, he told them this story:

New American Bible
When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another journeying to him, he spoke in 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Matthew 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

Mark 4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

Context
The Parable of the Sower
3And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna and many others who ministered unto him of their substance. 4And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude. 5The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:1
The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side.

Matthew 13:2
And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

Mark 4:1
And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

Luke 8:5
The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it.

Luke 8:3
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