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Mark 4:14

The sower, soweth the worde.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Instability;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Sermon;   Sower;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   God's Word;   Word;   Word of God;   Word, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Devil/devils;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Apocalyptic;   Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Allegory;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Allegory;   Discourse;   Doctrines;   Ear (2);   Metaphors;   Mystery ;   Parable;   Physical ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The sower sows
King James Version (1611)
The Sower soweth the word.
King James Version
The sower soweth the word.
English Standard Version
The sower sows the word.
New American Standard Bible
"The sower sows the word.
New Century Version
The farmer is like a person who plants God's message in people.
Amplified Bible
"The sower sows the word [of God, the good news regarding the way of salvation].
Legacy Standard Bible
The sower sows the word.
Berean Standard Bible
The farmer sows the word.
Contemporary English Version
What the farmer is spreading is really the message about the kingdom.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sower sows the message.
Darby Translation
The sower sows the word:
Easy-to-Read Version
The farmer is like someone who plants God's teaching in people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sower soweth the worde.
George Lamsa Translation
The sower who sowed, sowed the word.
Good News Translation
The sower sows God's message.
Lexham English Bible
The sower sows the word.
Literal Translation
The sower sows the Word.
American Standard Version
The sower soweth the word.
Bible in Basic English
The seed is the word.
Hebrew Names Version
The farmer sows the word.
International Standard Version
The sower sows the word.Matthew 13:19;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
The sower who sowed, the word sowed.
Murdock Translation
The sower that sowed, sowed the word.
English Revised Version
The sower soweth the word.
World English Bible
The farmer sows the word.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way-side, where the word is sown;
Weymouth's New Testament
"What the sower sows is the Message.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that sowith, sowith a word.
Update Bible Version
The sower sows the word.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sower soweth the word.
New English Translation
The sower sows the word.
New King James Version
The sower sows the word.
New Living Translation
The farmer plants seed by taking God's word to others.
New Life Bible
What the man plants is the Word of God.
New Revised Standard
The sower sows the word.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sower, soweth the word;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that soweth, soweth the word.
Revised Standard Version
The sower sows the word.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The sower soweth ye worde.
Young's Literal Translation
He who is sowing doth sow the word;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The sower soweth the worde.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the sower is he that soweth the word.
THE MESSAGE
"The farmer plants the Word. Some people are like the seed that falls on the hardened soil of the road. No sooner do they hear the Word than Satan snatches away what has been planted in them.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The farmer spreads God's good news to others.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sower sows the word.

Contextual Overview

1 And he began agayne to teache by the sea syde: And ther gathered vnto hym much people, so greatly, that he entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea: and all the people was by the sea syde on the shore: 2 And he taught them many thinges by parables, and sayde vnto them in his doctrine. 3 Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe: 4 And it fortuned as he sowed, that some fell by the way syde, and the fowles of the ayre came, and deuoured it vp. 5 Some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not muche earth: and immediatly sprange vp, because it had not deapth of earth. 6 But assoone as the sonne was vp, it caught heate: and because it hadde not roote, it wythered away. 7 And some fell among thornes: and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, and it gaue no fruite. 8 And some fell vpon good grounde, and dyd yelde fruite, that sprang vp, and grewe, and brought foorth, some thirtie folde, and some sixtie folde, and some an hundred folde. 9 And he saide vnto them: He that hath eares to heare, let hym heare. 10 And when he was alone, they that were about hym, with the twelue, asked of hym the parable.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sower: Mark 4:3, Isaiah 32:20, Matthew 13:19, Matthew 13:37, Luke 8:11

the word: Mark 2:2, Colossians 1:5, Colossians 1:6, 1 Peter 1:23-25

Reciprocal: Matthew 13:18 - General Mark 4:26 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated.
Genesis 4:6
And the Lorde saide vnto Cain: why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenaunce abated?
Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain sayde vnto the Lord: My iniquitie is more then that it may be forgeuen.
Genesis 4:14
Beholde, thou hast cast me out this day from the vpper face of the earth, & from thy face shall I be hyd, fugitiue also and a vacabounde shall I be in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that fyndeth me shal slay me.
Genesis 4:15
And the Lorde said vnto him: Uerely whosoeuer slayeth Cain, he shalbe punished seuen folde. And the Lorde set a marke vpon Cain, lest any man fyndyng hym shoulde kyll hym.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.
Genesis 4:20
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech seuentie tymes & seuen tymes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sower soweth the word. Though our Lord thought fit to give the above gentle rebuke to his disciples for their dulness; yet he condescends to favour them with an interpretation of the above parable, which here begins: by this it appears, that the seed in the parable, before delivered, and which fell on different sorts of ground, is the word of God, which was preached to hearers of different dispositions: the word is the word of life and truth; the word of peace and reconciliation; the word of faith and righteousness; the word of salvation; the word which publishes and declares all these to be in and by Jesus Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 13:18-23.


 
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