Matthew 13:7
Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
In Context
6but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.
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.
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 →