Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is the seed that was sown by the wayside.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18Hear then the parable of the sower.
20The seed sown upon stony places is he who hears the word, and immediately receives it with joy;
Cross References
Matthew 4:23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of infirmity among the people.
Matthew 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the tares are the sons of the wicked one;
Luke 8:11Now the meaning of the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 10:9And heal the sick who are in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you.
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 →