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Mark 4:14

The sower sows the word.

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.
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 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 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake. 2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them: 3 "Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. 6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered. 7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain. 8 But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times." 9 And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!" 10 When 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 with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.
Genesis 4:6
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?
Genesis 4:11
So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:12
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 4:13
Then Cain said to the Lord , "My punishment is too great to endure!
Genesis 4:14
Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:15
But the Lord said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech 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.


 
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