Mark 4:14
The seed is the word.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
13And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?
Cross References
Matthew 13:19When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Mark 2:2And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.
Luke 1:2As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,
Acts 8:4But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.
1 Peter 1:23Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
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 →