Mark 4:14

The sower sows the word.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

The sower soweth the word.

In Context

13Then he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables?

15Now some people are like the seed along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in their hearts.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

Mark 2:2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door, and he was speaking the word to them.

Luke 1:2just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

Acts 8:4Now those who had been scattered went around preaching the message of good news.

1 Peter 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the word of God that lives and abides forever.

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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