New American Standard Bible 1995
Mark 4:15
15These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately 1Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
Mark 4:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
- New International Version (NIV)Some people are like seed 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
Context of Mark 4:15
13And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables? 14The sower sows the word. These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 16In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; 17and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Read all of Mark 4Mark 4:15 word by word
οὗτοι δέ εἰσιν οἱ παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ὅπου σπείρεται ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὅταν ἀκούσωσιν, εὐθὺς ἔρχεται ὁ σατανᾶς καὶ αἴρει τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐσπαρμένονRead the interlinear
- Theseοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
- are the ones whoὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- are besideπαράpara · from/with/besideG3844
- the roadὁδόςhodos · roadG3598
- whereὅπουhopou · where(-ever)G3699
- the wordλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
- is sownσπείρωspeirō · to sowG4687
- and whenὅτανhotan · when(-ever)G3752
- they hearἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
- immediatelyεὐθύςeuthus · StraightG2117
- SatanΣατανᾶςSatanas · SatanG4567
- comesἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
- and takesαἴρωairō · to take upG142
Cross-references for Mark 4:15
- Mark 4:4as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
- Genesis 19:14Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
- Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
- Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,
- Luke 8:12Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.
- Luke 14:18But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’
- Acts 17:18And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
- Acts 18:14But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;
- Acts 25:19but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.
- Acts 26:31and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.”
- Hebrews 2:1For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.
- Hebrews 12:16that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
- Job 1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
- Zechariah 3:1Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
- Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Commentaries on Mark 4:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15These are they - Probably our Lord here refers to the people to whom he had just now preached, and who, it is likely, did not profit by the word spoken. Where the word is sown - Instead of this clause, four copies of the Itala read the place thus - They who are sown by the way side, are they Who Receive The Word Negligently. There are thousands of this stamp in the Christian world. Reader, art thou one of them?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 See the notes at Matthew 13:18-23.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-20The explanation of the parable of the four soils uses an allegory (a story where each part has a deeper meaning). The farmer represents someone who shares God’s word (4:14). The four types of soil represent different ways people respond to that message. The main point of the parable is that people should be like good soil and listen to God’s word (4:9). Only those who produce a crop (show a changed life) and continue faithfully to the end will be saved…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. And these are they by the wayside, where the word is sown; but, when they have heard, &c.--or, more fully (Mt 13:19), "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." The great truth here taught is, that hearts all unbroken and hard are no fit soil for saving truth. They apprehend it not (Mt 13:19) as God's means of restoring them to Himself; it…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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