Matthew 13:2
Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while all the people stood on the shore.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea.
3And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Cross References
Matthew 4:25The large crowds that followed Him came from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Mark 4:1Once again Jesus began to teach beside the sea, and such a large crowd gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people crowded along the shore.
Luke 8:4While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable:
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 →