Mark 4:14 (BSB)
The farmer sows the word.
Commentary on Mark 4:14
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 4:1-20: The foregoing chapter began with Christ's entering into the synagogue (Mar 4:1); this chapter begins with Christ's teaching again by the sea side. Thus he changed his method, that if possible all might be reached and wrought upon. To gratify the nice and more genteel sort of people that had seats, chief seats, in the synagogue, and did not care for hearing a sermon any...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 4:14: And have no root in themselves,.... The word has no root in their hearts, only in their natural affections: nor is the root of grace in them; there is no heart work, only speculative notions, and flashy affections: and so endure but for a time: they continue hearers and professors of the Gospel but for a small season; like the Jews, who rejoiced in the...
- William Burkitt (Anglican), Expository Notes on the New Testament on Mark 4:14: Here our Saviour applies himself to interpret and explain the foregoing parable: the seed is the word, the sower is the preacher, the soil is the heart and soul of man. Some hearers Christ compares to the highway ground, in which the seed lies uncovered for the want of the harrow of meditation. Others to stony ground, in which the word has no root.