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 Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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. Scandalized in me... That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal or offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross which I shall endure.
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 →