Mark 4:17
And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,
Cross References
Job 19:28Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
Matthew 11:6And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.
Matthew 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.
Mark 4:5And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth.
John 8:31Then Jesus said to those Jews, who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.
1 Corinthians 10:12Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.
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 →