Mark 4:14

The sower that sowed, sowed the word.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

The sower soweth the word.

In Context

13And he said to them: Do ye not understand this similitude? And how will ye understand all similitudes?

15And those by the side of the path, are they in whom the word is sown; and as soon as they have heard it, Satan cometh, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19Every one that heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, the evil one cometh and snatcheth away the seed sowed in his heart: this is what was sowed by the side of the path.

Mark 2:2many were assembled, so that the house could not contain them, not even before the door. And he held discourse with them.

Luke 1:2as they delivered them to us, who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word;

Acts 8:4And they who were dispersed, travelled about and preached the word of God.

1 Peter 1:23like persons born again, not of seed that perisheth, but of that which doth not perish, by the living word of God, who abideth for ever.

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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