Matthew 13:6
But when the sun was risen, they sweltered, [or they burned for the heat], (or they were parched), and for they had not root, they dried up.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 7:26And every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them not, is like a fool, that hath builded his house on gravel [or on sand].
Luke 8:13But they that fell on a stone, be these that when they have heard, receive the word with joy. And these have no roots; for at a time they believe, and in time of temptation they go away (or but in the time of testing they go away).
Colossians 1:23If nevertheless ye dwell in the faith, founded, and stable, and unmoveable from the hope of the gospel that ye have heard, which is preached in all creature that is under heaven (or which is preached in all Creation that is under heaven). Of which I, Paul, am made a minister,
James 1:11The sun rose up with heat, and dried the grass [or the hay], and the flower of it felled down, and the fairness of his cheer perished (or and the beauty of his face perished); and so a rich man withereth in his ways.
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 →