Matthew 13:7
Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked them.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
In Context
6The sun rose and scorched them and they withered because they had no roots.
Cross References
Genesis 3:18It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.
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.
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 →