Matthew 13:3

and He spoke to them many things in allegories, saying, “Behold, the sower went forth to sow,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

In Context

2and gathered together to Him were many multitudes, so that He having gone into the boat sat down, and all the multitude on the beach stood,

4and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the birds having come, devoured them,

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:1And YHWH sends Nathan to David, and he comes to him, and says to him: “Two men have been in one city, one rich and one poor.

Psalms 78:2I open my mouth with an allegory, || I bring forth hidden things of old,

Ezekiel 17:2“Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use an allegory to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 24:3And use an allegory toward the house of rebellion, and you have said to them, Thus said Lord YHWH: To set on the pot, to set [it] on, and also to pour water into it,

Habakkuk 2:6Are these not—all of them—an allegory taken up against him, || And a moral of acute sayings for him, || And say, Woe [to] him who is multiplying [what is] not his? Until when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Matthew 13:34All these things Jesus spoke in allegories to the multitudes, and without an allegory He was not speaking to them,

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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