The Parable of the Sower Explained
18 Mark 4:13–20; Luke 8:11–15"Therefore hear the parable of the sower:19 When anyone hears the word Matt. 4:23of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately Is. 58:2; Ezek. 33:31, 32; John 5:35receives it with joy;21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when (Acts 14:22)tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately Matt. 11:6; 2 Tim. 1:15he stumbles.22 Now Matt. 19:23; Mark 10:23; Luke 18:24; 1 Tim. 6:9; 2 Tim. 4:10he who received seed Jer. 4:3among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears (John 15:5); Phil. 1:11; Col. 1:6fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."