Matthew 13:19

When 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.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

In Context

18Hear you, therefore, the parable of the sower.

20He that received seed on the stony places is he that hears the word, and immediately receives it with joy.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease, and every kind of sickness among the people.

Matthew 13:38the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; the tares are the sons of the Wicked One;

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

Luke 10:9and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them: The kingdom of God has come near to you.

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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