Mark 4:6

And when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

In Context

5Other seed fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth: and it immediately sprung up, because it had no depth of earth.

7And other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it produced no fruit.

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Cross References

Colossians 2:7rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

James 1:11For the sun rises with its burning heat, and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its form perishes. So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Revelation 7:16They shall hunger no more, nor shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun fall upon them, nor any heat.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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