Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
Parallel translations
- WEB Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.
- KJV And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
- NKJV And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
- NASB Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.
- NLT Other seed fell among thorns that grew up with it and choked out the tender plants.
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Quick answer
Seed among thorns is choked as the thorns grow up with it. It pictures the word smothered by competing concerns.
Overview
The third soil yields plants that are strangled by thorns growing alongside. Jesus later identifies the thorns as the cares, riches, and pleasures of life. The image warns that a divided heart, crowded with rival affections, never brings the word to fruitfulness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 4:3For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- Luke 8:14The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- Mark 4:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
- Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Heb 6:7–8For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
- Matt 13:7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- Mark 4:18–19Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
- Matt 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Gen 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
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