Bible Strands
Mark 4:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses his disciples and the surrounding crowd, narrating the parable of the sower immediately after describing seed scorched by the sun.
The words — The text highlights ἄλλο (allo) meaning "other" and ἀκάνθας (akanthas) meaning "thorns," noting that the thorns ἀνέβησαν (anebēsan) "grew up" to choke the seedlings.
The thread — This imagery connects to Jeremiah 4:3, which commands clearing unplowed ground to avoid sowing among thorns, and Luke 8:14, which identifies the thorns as worries, riches, and pleasures that choke the heard word.
Why it lands — The text states that choked seedlings yield no crop, requiring the reader to identify what spiritual growth is being suffocated in their own life.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 4:3 For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- Luke 8:14 The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- Genesis 3:17 And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Matthew 13:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
- Matthew 13:22 The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Mark 4:18 Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
- Luke 8:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
- Luke 12:15 And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Luke 21:34 But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.