Mark 4:6

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

5Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

7Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.

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Cross References

Colossians 2:7having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.

James 1:11The sun rises with his scorching heat and dries up the herbage, so that its flowers drop off and the beauty of its appearance perishes, and in the same way rich men with all their prosperity will fade away.

Revelation 7:16They will never again be hungry or thirsty, and never again will the sun or any scorching heat trouble them.

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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