Matthew 13:18

Hear you, therefore, the parable of the sower.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

In Context

17For verily I say to you, Many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear.

19When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he that received seed by the wayside.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:11He answered, and said to them: Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given.

Luke 8:11But the meaning of the parable is this: The seed is the word of God;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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