Matthew 13:6

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Others fell on stony places, where they had not much earth; and they immediately sprung up, because they had no depth of earth.

7Others fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:26And every one that hears these words of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they that, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who, for awhile, believe, and in time of temptation apostatize.

Colossians 1:23if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

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.

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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