Luke 8

1Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,Cross-references: Isa 61:1 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:35 · Matt 10:2 · Matt 11:1 · Matt 13:19 · +9 more

2and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;Cross-references: Matt 27:55 · Mark 15:40 · Mark 16:1 · Mark 16:9 · Luke 8:30 · Luke 23:27 · +4 more

3and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:14 · Isa 23:18 · Matt 2:11 · Matt 14:1 · Matt 25:40 · Matt 26:11 · +8 more

4When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:Cross-references: Matt 13:2 · Mark 4:1

5“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.Cross-references: Gen 15:11 · Ps 119:118 · Matt 5:13 · Matt 13:3 · Matt 13:18 · Matt 13:24 · +7 more

6Some seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.Cross-references: Jer 5:3 · Ezek 11:19 · Ezek 36:26 · Amos 6:12 · Matt 13:5 · Matt 13:20 · +6 more

7Some fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.Cross-references: Gen 3:18 · Jer 4:3 · Matt 13:7 · Matt 13:22 · Mark 4:7 · Mark 4:18 · +3 more

8Some fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:1 · Prov 20:12 · Jer 13:15 · Jer 25:4 · +12 more

9Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”Cross-references: Hos 6:3 · Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:18 · Matt 13:36 · Matt 15:15 · Mark 4:10 · +3 more

10He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Ps 25:14 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 29:14 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 5:21 · +16 more

11“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.Cross-references: Isa 8:20 · Matt 13:19 · Mark 4:14 · 1Cor 3:6 · 1Cor 3:9 · James 1:21 · +1 more

12Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.Cross-references: Prov 1:24 · Prov 1:29 · Prov 4:5 · Isa 65:11 · Matt 13:19 · Mark 4:15 · +4 more

13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.Cross-references: Job 19:28 · Ps 106:12 · Prov 12:3 · Prov 12:12 · Isa 58:2 · Ezek 33:32 · +29 more

14What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.Cross-references: Matt 6:24 · Matt 13:22 · Mark 4:19 · Luke 8:7 · Luke 13:6 · Luke 16:13 · +8 more

15Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · Job 23:11 · Ps 1:1 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 119:11 · Ps 119:127 · +31 more

16“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.Cross-references: Matt 5:15 · Mark 4:21 · Luke 11:33 · Acts 26:18 · Phil 2:15 · Rev 1:20 · +1 more

17For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.Cross-references: Eccl 12:14 · Matt 10:26 · Mark 4:22 · Luke 12:2 · 1Cor 4:5

18Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”Cross-references: Deut 32:46 · Prov 2:2 · Prov 14:12 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 13:12 · Matt 25:29 · +19 more

19His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.Cross-references: Matt 12:46 · Mark 3:21 · Mark 3:31

20Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”Cross-references: Matt 13:55 · Mark 6:3 · John 7:3 · Acts 1:14 · 1Cor 9:5 · Gal 1:19

21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”Cross-references: Matt 7:21 · Matt 17:5 · Matt 25:40 · Matt 25:45 · Matt 28:10 · Luke 8:15 · +12 more

22Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.Cross-references: Matt 8:18 · Matt 8:23 · Matt 14:22 · Mark 4:35 · Mark 5:21 · Mark 6:45 · +4 more

23But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.Cross-references: Ps 44:23 · Ps 93:3 · Ps 107:23 · Ps 124:2 · Ps 148:8 · Isa 51:9 · +4 more

24They came to him and awoke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are dying!” He awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; then they ceased, and it was calm.Cross-references: Ps 65:7 · Ps 69:1 · Ps 104:6 · Ps 107:25 · Ps 116:3 · Ps 142:4 · +9 more

25He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid, they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”Cross-references: Gen 1:9 · Josh 10:12 · Job 38:8 · Prov 8:29 · Prov 30:4 · Matt 6:30 · +6 more

26Then they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.Cross-references: Matt 8:28 · Mark 5:1

27When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.Cross-references: Num 19:16 · 1Sam 19:24 · Isa 65:4 · Mark 5:2

28When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”Cross-references: Isa 27:1 · Matt 8:29 · Mark 1:24 · Mark 5:6 · Luke 4:33 · Luke 8:37 · +6 more

29For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.Cross-references: Mark 5:3 · Mark 5:8 · Mark 9:20 · Luke 9:39 · Luke 9:42 · Acts 19:12 · +1 more

30Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.Cross-references: Matt 8:29 · Matt 26:53 · Mark 5:9 · Mark 16:9 · Luke 8:2

31They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.Cross-references: Job 1:11 · Job 2:5 · Matt 25:41 · Luke 8:28 · Phil 2:10 · Rev 9:1 · +6 more

32Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.Cross-references: Lev 11:7 · 1Ki 22:22 · Job 1:10 · Job 1:12 · Job 2:6 · Ps 62:11 · +7 more

33The demons came out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.Cross-references: Luke 8:22 · John 8:44 · 1Pet 5:8 · Rev 9:11

34When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.Cross-references: Matt 8:33 · Matt 28:11 · Mark 5:14 · Acts 19:16

35People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.Cross-references: Ps 51:10 · Isa 49:24 · Isa 53:12 · Mark 5:15 · Luke 2:46 · Luke 8:27 · +5 more

36Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.Cross-references: Matt 4:24

37All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.Cross-references: Deut 5:25 · 1Sam 6:20 · 2Sam 6:8 · 1Ki 17:18 · Job 21:14 · Matt 8:34 · +8 more

38But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,Cross-references: Ex 12:25 · Ex 13:8 · Ex 13:14 · Deut 10:20 · Ps 27:4 · Ps 32:7 · +16 more

39“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.Cross-references: Deut 10:21 · Ps 66:16 · Ps 126:2 · Dan 4:1 · Dan 4:34 · Mark 1:45 · +3 more

40When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.Cross-references: Prov 8:34 · Matt 9:1 · Mark 5:21 · Mark 6:20 · Mark 12:37 · Luke 5:1 · +5 more

41Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged him to come into his house,Cross-references: Matt 8:7 · Matt 9:18 · Mark 5:22 · Luke 5:8 · Luke 8:49 · Luke 13:14 · +8 more

42for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.Cross-references: Gen 44:20 · Job 1:18 · Job 4:20 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 103:15 · Eccl 6:12 · +7 more

43A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any,Cross-references: Lev 15:25 · 2Chr 16:12 · Job 13:4 · Ps 108:12 · Isa 2:22 · Isa 55:1 · +13 more

44came behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 22:12 · Mal 4:2 · Matt 8:3 · Matt 20:34 · Mark 5:27 · +6 more

45Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”Cross-references: Mark 5:30 · Luke 5:5 · Luke 9:13

46But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”Cross-references: Luke 5:17 · Luke 6:19 · 1Pet 2:9

47When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:4 · Ps 2:11 · Ps 38:9 · Ps 66:16 · Isa 66:2 · Hos 5:3 · +10 more

48He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”Cross-references: Ex 4:18 · 1Sam 1:17 · 2Ki 5:19 · Matt 8:13 · Matt 9:2 · Matt 9:22 · +8 more

49While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”Cross-references: Isa 7:12 · Matt 9:23 · Mark 5:35 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 8:41 · Luke 11:7

50But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”Cross-references: Isa 50:10 · Mark 5:36 · Mark 9:23 · Mark 11:22 · Luke 8:48 · John 11:25 · +3 more

51When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:19 · 2Ki 4:4 · 2Ki 4:34 · Isa 42:2 · Matt 6:5 · Mark 5:37 · +4 more

52All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”Cross-references: Gen 23:2 · Gen 27:34 · Ex 24:17 · 2Sam 18:33 · Jer 9:17 · Zech 12:10 · +5 more

53They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.Cross-references: Job 12:4 · Job 17:2 · Ps 22:7 · Isa 53:3 · Mark 15:44 · Luke 16:14 · +2 more

54But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”Cross-references: Jer 31:32 · Matt 9:25 · Mark 1:31 · Mark 5:40 · Mark 8:23 · Mark 9:27 · +7 more

55Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:21 · Mark 5:43 · Luke 24:41 · John 11:44

56Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:30 · Mark 5:42 · Luke 5:14