Matthew 13:2
And great crowds were gathered together to Him, so that He got into the boat and sat; and the crowd stood on the shore.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
1On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
3And He spoke to them many things in parables, saying: “Behold, the sower went out to sow.
Cross References
Matthew 4:25And large crowds followed Him from Galilee and from Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Mark 4:1And again He began to teach beside the sea. And a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He got aboard into the boat, and sat on the sea; and all the crowd was upon the land by the sea.
Luke 8:4And when a large crowd had gathered, and the people came to Him from every city, He spoke by a 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 →