Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.
Bible in Basic English
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
7And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
Cross References
Matthew 7:26And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;
Luke 8:13And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.
Colossians 1:23If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
James 1:11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing 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 →