Mark 4:17

yet have no rotes in them selves and so endure but a tyme: and anone as trouble and persecucion aryseth for ye wordes sake they fall immediatly.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

In Context

16And likewise they that are sowen on the stonye groude are they: which when they have harde the worde at once receave it wt gladnes

18And they that are sowe amoge the thornes are soche as heare ye worde:

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Cross References

Matthew 11:6And happy is he that is not offended by me.

Matthew 13:21yet hath he no rottes in him selfe and therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde by and by he falleth.

Mark 4:5Some fell on stony grounde where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp because it had not deepth of erth:

John 8:31Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye cotinue in my wordes then are ye my very disciples

1 Corinthians 10:12Wherfore let hym that thynketh he stodeth take hede least he fall.

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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