Mark 4:15

But these it be that be about the way, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, anon cometh Satan (or at once Satan cometh), and taketh away the word that is sown in their hearts.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

In Context

14He that soweth, soweth a word.

16And in like manner be these that be sown on stony places, which when they have heard the word, anon they take it with joy (or at once they receive it with joy);

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Cross References

Job 1:6And in a day, when the sons of God were come to be present before the Lord, also Satan came among them. (Now on a day, when the sons of God came and were present before the Lord, Satan also came among them.)

Zechariah 3:1And the Lord showed to me the great priest Joshua, standing before the angel of the Lord; and Satan stood on his right half, that he should be adversary to him. (And the Lord showed me Joshua, the High Priest, standing before the angel of the Lord; and Satan stood at his right hand or and the Adversary stood at his right hand, so that he could accuse him, or so that he could be adverse, or hostile, to him.)

Matthew 13:19Each that heareth the word of the realm, and understandeth (it) not, the evil spirit cometh, and ravisheth (or snatcheth up) that that is sown in his heart; this it is [or this is he], that is sown beside the way.

Mark 4:4And while he soweth, some seed felled about the way [or beside the way], and (the) birds of (the) heaven (s), [or the birds of the air], came, and ate it.

Luke 14:18And all began together to excuse them (selves). The first said [to him], I have bought a town, and I have need to go out, and see it; I pray thee, have me excused.

Acts 17:18And some Epicureans, and Stoics, and philosophers disputed with him. And some said, What will this sower of words say? And others said, He seemeth to be a teller of new fiends; for he told to them (of) Jesus, and (of) the again-rising, (or for he told them about Jesus, and about 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 →

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