Matthew 13:7
Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
In Context
6But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.
Cross References
Genesis 3:18Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.
Matthew 13:22And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.
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 →