Mark 4:14
12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
The farmer sows the word.
15 Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
16 Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The farmer sows the word.
- KJV
- The sower soweth the word.
- WEB
- The farmer sows the word.
- ASV
- The sower soweth the word.
- DARBY
- The sower sows the word:
- BLB
- The one sowing sows the word.
- ÅB
- Såmannen sår ordet.
- OTB
- Såmannen sår ordet.
- B1930
- Såmannen sår ordet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 8:4
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
Read in contextMatthew 13:19
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
Read in context1 Peter 1:23–25
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Read in contextLuke 8:11
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Read in contextMatthew 13:37
He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
Read in contextMark 2:2
they gathered in such large numbers that there was no more room, not even outside the door, as Jesus spoke the word to them.
Read in contextMark 4:3
“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Read in contextColossians 1:5–6
the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
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