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the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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Geneva Bible

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.
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.
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

1 And hee began againe to teache by the sea side, and there gathered vnto him a great multitude, so that hee entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea, and all the people was by the sea side on the land. 2 And he taught them many things in parables, and said vnto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe. 4 And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp. 5 And some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not much earth, and by and by sprang vp, because it had not depth of earth. 6 But assoone as ye Sunne was vp, it was burnt vp, and because it had not roote, it withered away. 7 And some fell among the thornes, and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, so that it gaue no fruite. 8 Some againe fell in good grounde, and did yeelde fruite that sprong vp, and grewe, and it brought foorth, some thirtie folde, some sixtie folde, and some an hundreth folde. 9 Then he said vnto them, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare. 10 And whe he was alone, they that were about him with the twelue, asked him of ye 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 Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.
Genesis 4:6
Then ye Lord said vnto Kain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance cast downe?
Genesis 4:11
Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thine hand.
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till the grounde, it shall not henceforth yeelde vnto thee her strength: a vagabond and a runnagate shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:13
Then Kain said to the Lorde, My punishment is greater, then I can beare.
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast cast me out this day fro the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and shalbe a vagabond, and a runnagate in the earth, and whosoeuer findeth me, shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord said vnto him, Doubtlesse whosoeuer slayeth Kain, he shalbe punished seue folde. And the Lord set a marke vpon Kain, lest any man finding him should kill him.
Genesis 4:16
Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
Genesis 4:20
And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.
Genesis 4:24
If Kain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech, seuentie times seuen folde.

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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