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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Luke 8:7

"Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Character;   Converts;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Sower;   Word of God;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Communion (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Evangelism;   Luke, Gospel of;   Sower;   Swift;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Doctrines;   Ear (2);   Luke;   Organization (2);   Parable;   Premeditation;   Religious Experience;   Thorns;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
King James Version (1611)
And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.
King James Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
English Standard Version
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
New American Standard Bible
"Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.
New Century Version
Some seed fell among thorny weeds, but the weeds grew up with it and choked the good plants.
Amplified Bible
"Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.
Legacy Standard Bible
And other seed fell among the thorns, and when the thorns grew up with it, they choked it out.
Berean Standard Bible
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
Contemporary English Version
Some other seeds fell where thornbushes grew up and choked the plants.
Complete Jewish Bible
Some fell in the midst of thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
Darby Translation
and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with [it] choked it;
Easy-to-Read Version
Some other seed fell among thorny weeds. This seed grew, but later the weeds stopped the plants from growing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.
George Lamsa Translation
And other fell among thistles; and the thistles sprung up with it and choked it.
Good News Translation
Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up with the plants and choked them.
Lexham English Bible
And other seed fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with it and choked it.
Literal Translation
And other fell in the middle of the thorn bushes, and growing up with the thorn bushes, they choked it.
American Standard Version
And other fell amidst the thorns; and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Bible in Basic English
And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.
Hebrew Names Version
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
International Standard Version
Others fell among thornbushes, and the thornbushes grew with them and choked them.
Etheridge Translation
And other fell among thorns, and they sprang up with it, and choked it.
Murdock Translation
And other fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up with it, and choked it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.
English Revised Version
And other fell amidst the thorns; and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
World English Bible
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Weymouth's New Testament
Another part falls among the thorns, and the thorns grow up with it and stifle it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And othir fel among thornes, and the thornes sprongen vp togider, and strangliden it.
Update Bible Version
And other fell amid the thorns; and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
New English Translation
Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.
New King James Version
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
New Living Translation
Other seed fell among thorns that grew up with it and choked out the tender plants.
New Life Bible
Some seed fell among thorns. The thorns grew and did not give the seed room to grow.
New Revised Standard
Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, other, fell and thorns; and, growing together, the thorns, choked it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And other some fell among thorns. And the thorns growing up with it, choked it.
Revised Standard Version
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And some fell amonge thornes and ye thornes spronge vp with it and choked it.
Young's Literal Translation
`And other fell amidst the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it, did choke it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And some fell amonge thornes, and the thornes sprange vp with it, and choked it.
Mace New Testament (1729)
some fell among thorns; but the thorns over-grew it, and starv'd it.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Other seed fell among the cactus and thistles. They sprouted, but were choked out by the thorns.

Contextual Overview

4 When a large crowd was coming together, and those from the various cities were journeying to Him, He spoke by way of a parable: 5 "The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up. 6 "Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. 7 "Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.8 "Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great." As He said these things, He would call out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 9 His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant. 10 And He said, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND. 11 "Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. 12 "Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved. 13 "Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thorns: Luke 8:14, Luke 21:34, Genesis 3:18, Jeremiah 4:3, Matthew 13:7, Matthew 13:22, Mark 4:7, Mark 4:18, Mark 4:19, Hebrews 6:7, Hebrews 6:8

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
every raven in its kind,
1 Kings 17:4
"It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there."
1 Kings 17:6
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.
Job 38:41
"Who prepares for the raven its nourishment When its young cry to God And wander about without food?
Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens which cry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And some fell among thorns,.... On ground which had within it the roots of thorns and briars; and design such hearers who have their hearts filled with worldly cares, and sensual lusts and pleasures:

and the thorns sprang up with it; and grew faster than that:

and choked it; as the above things do the word, and make it useless and unprofitable; so that though it took place for a while, and was professed, yet process of time was neglected and dropped; and, as Mark says, "it yielded no fruit"; at least that came to perfection.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-23.


 
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