Mark 4:14

Weymouth New Testament

"What the sower sows is the Message.

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;

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 Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water. ² Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said, ³ "Listen: the sower goes out to sow. ⁴ As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up. ⁵ Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil; ⁶ but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away. ⁷ Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop. ⁸ But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold." ⁹ "Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!" ¹⁰ When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

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 at His left, "`Begone from me, with the curse resting upon you, into the Fire of the Ages, which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels.

Matthew 25:46
"And these shall go away into the Punishment of the Ages, but the righteous into the Life of the Ages."

2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,

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.