Mark 4:7
And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
In Context
6But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22But the seed sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.
Luke 8:7And other seed fell among thorns, and when the thorns grew up with it, they choked it.
Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
1 Timothy 6:9But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men into destruction and perdition.
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 →