Matthew 13:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
In Context
6But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
8Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
Cross References
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke 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 →