Matthew 13:6
But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
7Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.
Cross References
Matthew 7:26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
Luke 8:13Now those upon rock are those who, when they hear it, accept the word with joy, but these have no roots. So they believe for a time, but in a time of testing, they fall away.
Colossians 1:23So then, continue in the faith: well-founded and steadfast and immovable, by the hope of the Gospel that you have heard, which has been preached throughout all creation under heaven, the Gospel of which I, Paul, have become a minister.
James 1:11For the sun has risen with a scorching heat, and has dried the grass, and its flower has fallen off, and the appearance of its beauty has perished. So also will the rich one wither away, according to his paths.
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 →