Parallel translations
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsKJV
The sower soweth the word.
ASV
The sower soweth the word.
YLT
He who is sowing doth sow the word;
DBT
The sower sows the word:
The sower soweth the word.
The sower soweth the word.
He who is sowing doth sow the word;
The sower sows the word:
Mark — The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
The Greek culture, along with its philosophy, was preparatory. By this it is made clear how obliquely, not with a straight direction, gifts have come from God to humanity—in that miscellaneous way that showers fall down on the good land, and on the dunghill, and on the houses. Then both grass and wheat sprout. Both figs and reckless trees grow on sepulchers. These things are like a figure of the truth disclosing itself. All enjoy the same influence of the rain.
The sower soweth the word.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Each of these has his agents among men themselves; and Christ's agents in the sowing of the good seed are the preachers of the word. Thus, as in all the cases about to be described, the sower is the same, and the seed is the same; while the result is entirely different, the whole difference must lie in the soils, which mean the different states of the human heart.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The verses this one reaches11
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
they gathered in such large numbers that there was no more room, not even outside the door, as Jesus spoke the word to them.
“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
The walk8
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 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
leads to
Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
Through
Luke 8:11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
leads to
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
The farmer sows the word.
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.