Mark 4:15
where the word is sown; but when they have heard it, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
14The sower is he that soweth the word. And these are they by the way-side:
16And in like manner, they that are sown as on stony grounds are such, as when they hear the word,
Cross References
Matthew 13:19and regardeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and snatcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he who received the seed as by the way-side.
Mark 4:4and in sowing, some fell by the way-side, and the birds came and ate it up:
Luke 14:18And they all with one consent began to make excuses; the first said, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it, pray have me excused.
Acts 17:18But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him; and some said, What would this babler say? and others, He seemeth to be a proclaimer of foreign deities: because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
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 →