Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the message of the kingdom without understanding it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in their mind. This is the person meant by the seed which was sown along the path.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

In Context

18‘Listen, then, yourselves to the parable of the sower.

20By the seed which was sown on rocky places is meant the person who hears the message, and at once accepts it joyfully;

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Cross References

Matthew 4:23Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;

Matthew 13:38The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked,

Luke 8:11This is the parable – The seed is God’s message.

Luke 10:9cure the sick there, and tell people that the kingdom of God is close at hand.

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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