Matthew 13:2
when a vast multitude of people crowded round Him. He therefore went on board a boat and sat there, while all the people stood on the shore.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
1That same day Jesus had left the house and was sitting on the shore of the Lake,
3He then spoke many things to them in figurative language. "The sower goes out," He said, "to sow.
Cross References
Matthew 4:25And great crowds followed Him, coming from Galilee, from the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, and from beyond the district on the other side of the Jordan.
Mark 4:1Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.
Luke 8:4And when a great crowd was assembling, and was receiving additions from one town after another, He spoke a parable to them.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24
The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →