Mark 4:14

Christian Standard Bible ®

The sower sows

Parallel Translations

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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The farmer spreads God's good news to others.

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

Contextual Overview

¹Again he began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around him. So he got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore. ²He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ³“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow. ⁴As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, ⁵Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly, ⁶When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. ⁷Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce fruit. ⁸Still other seed fell on good ground and it grew up, producing fruit that increased ⁹Then he said, “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.” ¹⁰When he was alone, those around him with the Twelve, asked him about the parables.

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 he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Genesis 4:6
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:13
But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!

Genesis 4:14
Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:20
Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen.

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

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.