Matthew 13:19

The Parable Of The Sower Interpreted

¹⁸ "Listen then, to the parable of the sower. ¹⁹  "Whenever any one hears the message of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. ²⁰ "This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.

Evil One

Good News

Devil

Matthew 4:23

Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

Matthew 13:38

"the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.

1 John 2:13-14

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

1 John 3:12

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

Matthew 5:37

"But let your word be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the Evil One.

Mark 4:15

As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

Luke 8:11-15

"This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

Luke 9:2

and sent them out to preach the kingdom of God, and heal the sick.

Luke 10:9

"Heal the sick in that town and tell them, The kingdom of God draws near to you.

John 3:19-20

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 8:43

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

John 18:38

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

Acts 17:32

But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

Acts 18:15

but as these are merely questions about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must see to it. I am not willing to be a judge of these matters."

Acts 20:25

And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

Acts 24:25-26

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

Acts 25:19-20

but they kept quarreling with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed over and over was alive.

Acts 26:31-32

When they had withdrawn they continued talking to one another. "This man is doing nothing," they said, "for which he deserves death or imprisonment."

Acts 28:23

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

Romans 1:28

And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.

Romans 2:8

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:2-3

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

2 Thessalonians 2:12

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

Hebrews 2:1

For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.