Mark 4:15

At the start of my story, the seeds are a picture for God's word. The road is a picture of some people and the birds are a picture of the Devil. And so when the seeds fell onto the road, the birds came and took the seeds away. That means God's word is given out to people, but the Devil comes along and takes those words away so that people cannot take them deep into their lives.

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

In Context

14In my story, the man that spread the seeds out all over the ground is like a person that is telling people about God.

16In the next part of my story, some of the seeds fell onto ground that had too much stone in it. That is a picture of people that are happy to listen to God's word. They start to take notice of it, but they do not let that message go down deep into their life. When they have trouble or other people rubbish them, they get weak for God and they walk away from him.

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Cross References

Mark 4:4So he got the paddock ready and then he spread the seeds out all over the ground. Some seeds went too far and fell on the road. The birds saw the seeds and ate all of them.

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 →

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