Mark 4:14

"What the sower sows is the Message.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

The sower soweth the word.

In Context

13"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"

15Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has been sown in his heart. This is he who has received the seed by the road-side.

Mark 2:2and such numbers of people came together that there was no longer room for them even round the door. He was speaking His Message to them,

Luke 1:2on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,

Acts 8:4Those, however, who were scattered abroad went from place to place spreading the Good News of God's Message;

1 Peter 1:23For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.

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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