Matthew 13:3
Then he told them many truths in parables. “The sower,” he began, “went out to sow; and,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
In Context
4as they were sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Cross References
Psalms 78:2as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.
Habakkuk 2:6Shouldn’t everyone mock them? sing a taunt-song against them, and say: Woe to the person who amasses what is not theirs, and loads them self down with goods taken in pledge!
Matthew 13:34Of all this Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables; indeed to them he used never to speak at all except in parables,
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 →