Matthew 13:24
Another parable proposed he to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man who sowed good seed in his field:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
25and while the men were asleep, his enemy came and sowed zizane among the wheat, and departed.
Cross References
Matthew 3:2and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is nigh.
Matthew 13:19When any person heareth the word of the kingdom, and doth not understand it, the wicked one cometh, and snatcheth away what was sown on his heart: such is he who is the sown by the road-side.
Matthew 13:33Another parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.
Matthew 13:44Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field: which when a man findeth, he hideth, and for joy thereof, goeth away and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
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 →