Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand, then the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed that was sown beside the road.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
18“Therefore hear the parable of the sower:
20But the seed sown on stony ground, is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
Cross References
Matthew 4:23And Jesus went about all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.
Matthew 13:38And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil one.
Luke 8:11“Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 10:9And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has drawn near to you.’
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 →