Mark 4:7
Other seeds fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked the sprouting seeds, so they produced nothing.
Free Bible Version
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
6they were scorched when the sun came up. Since they didn't have any real roots, they soon withered.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:3This is what the Lord is saying to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed ground, and don't sow among the thorns.
Matthew 13:22The seeds sown among thorns are people who hear the message, but then life's worries and the temptation of money choke the message so that they become fruitless.
Luke 8:7Some seeds fell among thorns and as they both grew the thorns choked the plants.
Luke 12:15“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”
1 Timothy 6:9Those who are determined to become rich fall into the trap of temptation, following many foolish and damaging impulses.
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 →