Mark 4:14

The sower sows the message.

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In The King James Version

The sower soweth the word.

In Context

13“You do not know the meaning of this parable?” he went on, “Then how will you understand all the other parables?

15The people meant by the seed that falls along the path are these – where the message is sown, but, as soon as they have heard it, Satan immediately comes and carries away the message that has been sown in them.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When 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.

Mark 2:2and so many people collected together, that after a while there was no room for them even around the door; and he began to tell them his message.

Luke 1:2just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterward became bearers of the message.

Acts 8:4Now those who were scattered in different directions went from place to place proclaiming the good news.

1 Peter 1:23since your new life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the message of the Everliving God.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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