Matthew 13:18

You, therefore, hear the allegory of the sower:

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

In Context

17for truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see that which you look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which you hear, and they did not hear.

19Everyone hearing the word of the kingdom, and not understanding—the evil one comes, and snatches that which has been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:11And He answering said to them that, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, and to these it has not been given,

Luke 8:11And this is the allegory: the seed is the word of God,

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 →

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