Matthew 13:19
When people hear the message about the kingdom and don't understand it, the evil one comes along and rips out what was sown in them. This is what happens to the seeds sown on the path.
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18So listen to the story of the sower.
20The seeds sown on stony ground are people who hear the message and happily accept it straight away.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom calls out in the streets; she shouts aloud in the squares.
Proverbs 17:16Is there any point in stupid people trying to buy wisdom when they don't want to learn?
Matthew 4:23Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, telling the good news of the kingdom, and healing all the diseases and illnesses the people had.
Matthew 13:38“The field is the world. The good seeds are the children of the kingdom. The weed seeds are the children of the evil one.
Luke 8:11This is the meaning of the illustration: The seed is God's word.
Luke 10:9and heal those who are sick. Tell them, ‘God's kingdom has come 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 →