Mark 4:14

Mace New Testament

the sower is he that soweth the word.

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.

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 He began again to teach by the sea-side: but there was so great a crowd gathered about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a ship, where he sat down, and stay'd on board while the people stood on the shore. ² then he addressed himself to them in many parables, and thus began his instructions. ³ give your attention to what I say, a sower went out to sow: as he sowed, ⁴ some of the seed happened to fall by the wayside, which the birds light upon, and devoured. ⁵ some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth, and it soon sprang up, for want of a sufficient depth of earth. ⁶ but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away. ⁷ some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choaked it, so that it yielded no fruit. ⁸ but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred. ⁹ he that hath ears to hear, said he, let him hear. ¹⁰ And when he was in private, the twelve, and some of his disciples asked him the meaning of 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

Matthew 25:41
then will he say to those on the left, depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 25:46
and these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

2 Thessalonians 1:9
the Lord shall punish them with everlasting destruction, when he shall appear in the glory of his power,

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.