Mark 4:6
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
In Context
7And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Cross References
Psalms 92:13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Isaiah 25:4For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Colossians 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as all of you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
James 1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Revelation 7:16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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 →