Mark 4:6

And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

In Context

5And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth.

7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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Cross References

Psalms 92:13The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Isaiah 25:4dummy verses inserted by amos

Jonah 4:8And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

Colossians 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.

James 1:11For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Revelation 7:16They shall no more hunger nor thirst, neither shall the sun fall on them, nor any heat.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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