Matthew 13:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Some other seeds fell where thorn bushes grew up and choked the plants.

Cross References

Genesis 3:18

Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles.

Matthew 13:22

The seeds that fell among the thorn bushes are also people who hear the message. But they start worrying about the needs of this life and are fooled by the desire to get rich. So the message gets choked out, and they never produce anything.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched and dried up, because they did not have enough roots.

Matthew 13:8

But a few seeds did fall on good ground where the plants produced a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as was scattered.

Mark 4:7

Some other seeds fell where thorn bushes grew up and choked out the plants. So they did not produce any grain.

Luke 8:7

Some other seeds fell where thorn bushes grew up and choked the plants.