Luke 8:4

ὄχλου : Lk., like the two other evangelists, provides for the parable discourse a large audience, but he makes no mention of preaching from a boat, which has been forestalled in a previous incident (chap. Luke 5:3). καὶ τῶν κατὰ πόλιν, etc.: this clause simply explains how the crowd was made up, by contingents from the various towns. This would have been clearer if the καὶ had been left out; yet it is not superfluous, as it gives an enhanced idea of the size of the crowd = even people from every city gathering to Him. διὰ παραβολῆς : Lk. gives only a single parable in this place.