Mark 4:14
New International Version
The farmer sows the word.

New Living Translation
The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.

English Standard Version
The sower sows the word.

Berean Standard Bible
The farmer sows the word.

Berean Literal Bible
The one sowing sows the word.

King James Bible
The sower soweth the word.

New King James Version
The sower sows the word.

New American Standard Bible
The sower sows the word.

NASB 1995
“The sower sows the word.

NASB 1977
“The sower sows the word.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sower sows the word.

Amplified Bible
The sower sows the word [of God, the good news regarding the way of salvation].

Christian Standard Bible
The sower sows the word.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The sower sows the word.

American Standard Version
The sower soweth the word.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“The sower, who sowed, sowed the word.”

Contemporary English Version
What the farmer is spreading is really the message about the kingdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that soweth, soweth the word.

English Revised Version
The sower soweth the word.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The farmer plants the word.

Good News Translation
The sower sows God's message.

International Standard Version
The farmer sows the word.

Literal Standard Version
He who is sowing sows the word;

Majority Standard Bible
The farmer sows the word.

New American Bible
The sower sows the word.

NET Bible
The sower sows the word.

New Revised Standard Version
The sower sows the word.

New Heart English Bible
The farmer sows the word.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sower soweth the word.

Weymouth New Testament
"What the sower sows is the Message.

World English Bible
The farmer sows the word.

Young's Literal Translation
He who is sowing doth sow the word;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Parable of the Sower Explained
13Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables? 14The farmer sows the word. 15Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And He told them many things in parables, saying, "A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Mark 4:13
Then Jesus said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

Mark 4:15
Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Luke 1:2
just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.


Treasury of Scripture

The sower sows the word.

sower.

Mark 4:3
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Matthew 13:19,37
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side…

the word.

Mark 2:2
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

Colossians 1:5,6
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; …

1 Peter 1:23-25
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever…

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Mark 4
1. The parable of the sower,
14. and the meaning thereof.
21. We must communicate the light of our knowledge to others.
26. The parable of the seed growing secretly;
30. and of the mustard seed.
35. Jesus stills the storm on the sea.














Verse 14. -The sower soweth the word. St. Matthew (Matthew 13:19) calls it "the word of the kingdom" - an expression equivalent to "the gospel of the kingdom," not merely moral truth, but spiritual and eternal.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
The
(Ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

farmer
σπείρων (speirōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4687: To sow, spread, scatter. Probably strengthened from spao; to scatter, i.e. Sow.

sows
σπείρει (speirei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4687: To sow, spread, scatter. Probably strengthened from spao; to scatter, i.e. Sow.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word.
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.


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