Matthew 13:6

and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

ASV Byzantine Text

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

5and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightaway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth:

7And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:

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Cross References

Matthew 7:26And everyone that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

Luke 8:13And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

Colossians 1:23if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

James 1:11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

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 →

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