Mark 4:7 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 4:7

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.

BSB

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ASV

And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

KJV

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 15 (604)

For who would ever have believed me if I had wished to interpret thorns as riches, especially since the former prick while the latter delight? And yet they are thorns, because they tear the mind with the prickings of their thoughts, and when they drag it all the way to sin, they cause it to bleed as if by an inflicted wound. These, in this passage, as another evangelist attests, the Lord calls not simply riches, but deceitful riches, and rightly so.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hence it "becomes unfruitful" (Mt 13:22); it grows, but its growth is checked, and it never ripens. The evil here is neither a hard nor a shallow soil--there is softness enough, and depth enough; but it is the existence in it of what draws all the moisture and richness of the soil away to itself, and so starves the plant.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἄλλο	allo	other	G243 →
ἔπεσεν	epesen	fell	G4098 →
εἰς	eis	among	G1519 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἀκάνθας,	akanthas	thorns,	G173 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνέβησαν	anebēsan	grew up	G305 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
ἄκανθαι	akanthai	thorns	G173 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
συνέπνιξαν	sunepnixan	choked	G4846 →
αὐτό,	auto	it,	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
καρπὸν	karpon	fruit	G2590 →
οὐκ	ouk	no	G3756 →
ἔδωκεν.	edōken	it yielded.	G1325 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 13:22
The 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.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 6:17
  Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 8:14
  The 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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Timothy 6:9–10
  Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 4:18–19
  Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 12:15
  And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Through
Jeremiah 4:3
For 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.
leads to
- Hosea 10:12
  Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Luke 8:7
  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
Through
Luke 8:14
The 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…
leads to
- 1 John 2:15–17
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark