Mark 4:7
Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
In Context
6but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.
Cross References
Matthew 13:22He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
Luke 8:7Another part falls among the thorns, and the thorns grow up with it and stifle it.
Luke 12:15And to the people He said, "Take care, be on your guard against all covetousness, for no one's life consists in the superabundance of his possessions."
1 Timothy 6:9But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin.
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 →