Mark 4:6
and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of having no root it withered;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
In Context
7and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it gave no fruit;
Cross References
Psalms 92:13Those planted in the house of YHWH, || In the courts of our God, flourish.
Isaiah 25:4For You have been a stronghold for the poor, || A stronghold for the needy in his distress, || A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, || When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm—a wall.
Jonah 4:8And it comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my life.”
Colossians 2:7being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.
James 1:11for the sun rose with the burning heat, and withered the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished, so also the rich in his way will fade away!
Revelation 7:16they will not hunger anymore, nor may the sun fall on them, nor any heat,
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 →