Matthew 13:6
But when the sun was up it wilted. And, because it lacked root, it dried up.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
In Context
7And other seed fell among thorns: and the thorns shot up, and choked it.
Cross References
Matthew 7:26And every one that heareth these my discourses, and doeth them not, will be like a foolish man that built his house upon sand.
Luke 8:13And those upon the rock, are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy: but they have no root in them, and their faith is temporary, and in time of temptation they are stumbled.
Colossians 1:23provided ye continue in your faith, your foundation being firm, and ye be not removed from the hope of the gospel; of which ye have heard, that it is proclaimed in all the creation beneath heaven; of which gospel I Paul am a minister.
James 1:11For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways.
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 →