Matthew 13:3
And he spake unto them many things, in parables, saying: Lo! the sower went forth to sow,—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
In Context
4and, as he sowed, some, indeed, fell by the pathway, and, the birds, came, and devoured it;
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:1So then Yahweh sent Nathan the prophet unto David,—who therefore came unto him and said to him—Two men, there were in a certain city, the one, rich, and, the other, poor.
Psalms 78:2I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity;—
Ezekiel 17:2Son of man Put thou forth a riddle And speak thou a parable,- Unto the house of Israel:
Ezekiel 24:3Put thou forth therefore, against the perverse house a parable, and say unto them Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh: Set on the caldron set it on, Moreover also pour into it water:
Habakkuk 2:6Shall not, these, all of them, against him, take up—a taunt, a mocking poem, enigmatical sentences—concerning him? And say—Alas! for him who maketh abundance in what is not his own, How long? that he should be burdening himself with heavy debts?
Matthew 13:34All these things, spake Jesus in parables, unto the multitudes, and, without a parable, was he speaking, nothing, unto them:
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 →