Matthew 13:7

and others fell on the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

In Context

6and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through having no root, they withered,

8and others fell on the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18and it brings forth thorn and bramble for you, and you have eaten the herb of the field;

Matthew 13:22And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, chokes the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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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