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The twelve disciples went with him, </span><span class="v42_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.2" class="v42_8_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and so did some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had been driven out; </span><span class="v42_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.3" class="v42_8_3">3</span>Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Sower</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 13:1-9">Matthew 13.1-9</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 4:1-9">Mark 4.1-9</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.4" class="v42_8_4">4</span>People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.5" class="v42_8_5">5</span>“Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, where it was stepped on, and the birds ate it up. </span><span class="v42_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.6" class="v42_8_6">6</span>Some of it fell on rocky ground, and when the plants sprouted, they dried up because the soil had no moisture. </span><span class="v42_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.7" class="v42_8_7">7</span>Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up with the plants and choked them. </span><span class="v42_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.8" class="v42_8_8">8</span>And some seeds fell in good soil; the plants grew and bore grain, one hundred grains each.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_8">And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Purpose of the Parables</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 13:10-17">Matthew 13.10-17</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 4:10-12">Mark 4.10-12</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.9" class="v42_8_9">9</span>His disciples asked Jesus what this parable meant, </span><span class="v42_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.10" class="v42_8_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and he answered, “The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to the rest it comes by means of parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 13:18-23">Matthew 13.18-23</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 4:13-20">Mark 4.13-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.11" class="v42_8_11">11</span>“This is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God. </span><span class="v42_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.12" class="v42_8_12">12</span>The seeds that fell along the path stand for those who hear; but the Devil comes and takes the message away from their hearts in order to keep them from believing and being saved. </span><span class="v42_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.13" class="v42_8_13">13</span>The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who hear the message and receive it gladly. But it does not sink deep into them; they believe only for a while but when the time of testing comes, they fall away. </span><span class="v42_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.14" class="v42_8_14">14</span>The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear; but the worries and riches and pleasures of this life crowd in and choke them, and their fruit never ripens. </span><span class="v42_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.15" class="v42_8_15">15</span>The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.</span></p><h3 class="s">A Lamp under a Bowl</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 4:21-25">Mark 4.21-25</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.16" class="v42_8_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “No one lights a lamp and covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, it is put on the lampstand, so that people will see the light as they come in.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.17" class="v42_8_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Whatever is hidden away will be brought out into the open, and whatever is covered up will be found and brought to light.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.18" class="v42_8_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Be careful, then, how you listen; because those who have something will be given more, but whoever has nothing will have taken away from them even the little they think they have.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus' Mother and Brothers</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 12:46-50">Matthew 12.46-50</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 3:31-35">Mark 3.31-35</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.19" class="v42_8_19">19</span>Jesus' mother and brothers came to him, but were unable to join him because of the crowd. </span><span class="v42_8_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.20" class="v42_8_20">20</span>Someone said to Jesus, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to see you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.21" class="v42_8_21">21</span>Jesus said to them all, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Calms a Storm</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 8:23-27">Matthew 8.23-27</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 4:35-41">Mark 4.35-41</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.22" class="v42_8_22">22</span>One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they started out. </span><span class="v42_8_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.23" class="v42_8_23">23</span>As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. Suddenly a strong wind blew down on the lake, and the boat began to fill with water, so that they were all in great danger. </span><span class="v42_8_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.24" class="v42_8_24">24</span>The disciples went to Jesus and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master! We are about to die!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_24">Jesus got up and gave an order to the wind and to the stormy water; they quieted down, and there was a great calm. </span><span class="v42_8_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.25" class="v42_8_25">25</span>Then he said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_25">But they were amazed and afraid, and said to one another, “Who is this man? He gives orders to the winds and waves, and they obey him!”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Heals a Man with Demons</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 8:28-34">Matthew 8.28-34</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 5:1-20">Mark 5.1-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.26" class="v42_8_26">26</span>Jesus and his disciples sailed on over to the territory of Gerasa,<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> which is across the lake from Galilee. </span><span class="v42_8_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.27" class="v42_8_27">27</span>As Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a man from the town who had demons in him. For a long time this man had gone without clothes and would not stay at home, but spent his time in the burial caves. </span><span class="v42_8_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.28" class="v42_8_28">28</span>When he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry, threw himself down at his feet, and shouted, “Jesus, Son of the Most High God! What do you want with me? I beg you, don't punish me!” </span><span class="v42_8_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.29" class="v42_8_29">29</span>He said this because Jesus had ordered the evil spirit to go out of him. Many times it had seized him, and even though he was kept a prisoner, his hands and feet tied with chains, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon out into the desert.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.30" class="v42_8_30">30</span>Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_30">“My name is ‘Mob,’” he answered—because many demons had gone into him. </span><span class="v42_8_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.31" class="v42_8_31">31</span>The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss.<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.31!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.32" class="v42_8_32">32</span>There was a large herd of pigs near by, feeding on a hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he let them. </span><span class="v42_8_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.33" class="v42_8_33">33</span>They went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.34" class="v42_8_34">34</span>The men who had been taking care of the pigs saw what happened, so they ran off and spread the news in the town and among the farms. </span><span class="v42_8_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.35" class="v42_8_35">35</span>People went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were all afraid. </span><span class="v42_8_36"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.36" class="v42_8_36">36</span>Those who had seen it told the people how the man had been cured. </span><span class="v42_8_37"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.37" class="v42_8_37">37</span>Then all the people from that territory asked Jesus to go away, because they were terribly afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and left. </span><span class="v42_8_38"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.38" class="v42_8_38">38</span>The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus, “Let me go with you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_38">But Jesus sent him away, saying, </span><span class="v42_8_39"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.39" class="v42_8_39">39</span>“Go back home and tell what God has done for you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_39">The man went through the town, telling what Jesus had done for him.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 9:18-26">Matthew 9.18-26</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 5:21-43">Mark 5.21-43</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_40"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.40" class="v42_8_40">40</span>When Jesus returned to the other side of the lake, the people welcomed him, because they had all been waiting for him. </span><span class="v42_8_41"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.41" class="v42_8_41">41</span>Then a man named Jairus arrived; he was an official in the local synagogue. He threw himself down at Jesus' feet and begged him to go to his home, </span><span class="v42_8_42"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.42" class="v42_8_42">42</span>because his only daughter, who was twelve years old, was dying.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_42">As Jesus went along, the people were crowding him from every side. </span><span class="v42_8_43"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.43" class="v42_8_43">43</span>Among them was a woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years; she had spent all she had on doctors,<a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.8.43!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but no one had been able to cure her. </span><span class="v42_8_44"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.44" class="v42_8_44">44</span>She came up in the crowd behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and her bleeding stopped at once. </span><span class="v42_8_45"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.45" class="v42_8_45">45</span>Jesus asked, “Who touched me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_45">Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, the people are all around you and crowding in on you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_46"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.46" class="v42_8_46">46</span>But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I knew it when power went out of me.” </span><span class="v42_8_47"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.47" class="v42_8_47">47</span>The woman saw that she had been found out, so she came trembling and threw herself at Jesus' feet. There in front of everybody, she told him why she had touched him and how she had been healed at once. </span><span class="v42_8_48"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.48" class="v42_8_48">48</span>Jesus said to her, “My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_49"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.49" class="v42_8_49">49</span>While Jesus was saying this, a messenger came from the official's house. “Your daughter has died,” he told Jairus; “don't bother the Teacher any longer.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_50"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.50" class="v42_8_50">50</span>But Jesus heard it and said to Jairus, “Don't be afraid; only believe, and she will be well.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_51"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.51" class="v42_8_51">51</span>When he arrived at the house, he would not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother. </span><span class="v42_8_52"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.52" class="v42_8_52">52</span>Everyone there was crying and mourning for the child. Jesus said, “Don't cry; the child is not dead—she is only sleeping!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_8_53"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.53" class="v42_8_53">53</span>They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead. </span><span class="v42_8_54"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.54" class="v42_8_54">54</span>But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Get up, child!” </span><span class="v42_8_55"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.55" class="v42_8_55">55</span>Her life returned, and she got up at once, and Jesus ordered them to give her something to eat. </span><span class="v42_8_56"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.8.56" class="v42_8_56">56</span>Her parents were astounded, but Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone what had happened.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.26: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Gerasa; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Gadara </char><char style="ft" closed="false">(see Mt 8.28); others have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Gergesa.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.31: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Abyss: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">It was thought that the demons were to be imprisoned in the depths of the earth until their final punishment.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.43: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts do not have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">she had spent all she had on doctors.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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