Mark 4:14

Simplified Cowboy Version

The farmer spreads God's good news to others.

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
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Etheridge Translation
The sower who sowed, the word sowed.

Murdock Translation
The sower that sowed, sowed the word.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sower, soweth the worde.

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sower sows the word.

Contextual Overview

¹One day Jesus rode down to the lake. There was such a large crowd that he jumped up on a stack of hay. ²He taught them a lot of things by telling them stories. He said, ³"A farmer went out to plant his fields. ⁴As he planted, some of the seeds fell on the road, and the birds ate it all up. ⁵Other seeds fell next to some rocks where there wasn't much dirt. The seeds took root quickly in the shallow soil, ⁶but they withered quickly because there was nowhere for the roots to go. ⁷Other seeds fell among the cactus and thistles. They sprouted, but were choked out by the thorns. ⁸And finally, some seeds found good soil and produced a lot of grain. Some of it yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and still some a hundred times. ⁹Whoever has ears should be listening." ¹⁰Later on, when they were alone, some of his cowboys asked about the stories.

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

Matthew 25:41
"Then the Lord will turn to the goats on his left and say, 'Get these sorry mongrels off my spread! Put them on the killer trucks and ship them off to the fire that never goes out—the fire that was prepared for the devil and his demons!

Matthew 25:46
"And then they will be shipped off to the fires of hell, but those cowboys and cowgirls who rode for the Father's brand will be turned out to lush, eternal pasture."

2 Thessalonians 1:9
They'll realize too late how much they missed when they are cut off forever from God's love as a result of their hard hearts.

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.