Mark 4:15

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Summary

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.

These

Satan

General references

Mark 4:4

Bible References

These

and it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.

But they gave themselves no concern about it, and went their several ways, one to his own farm, and another to his traffick:

They by the road side, are such as hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh the word from their heart, that they should not be saved in believing.

And they all began with one voice to frame excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I must of necessity go and survey it: I pray thee hold me excused.

Then certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him: and some said, What will this chattering fellow say? but others, He seemeth to be a preacher of foreign deities, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

Then Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews,

but only pleaded against him certain disputes about their own mode of religious worship, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

and retiring, conversed together, saying, This man hath done nothing worthy of death, or of chains.

FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

Satan

When any person heareth the word of the kingdom, and doth not understand it, the wicked one cometh, and snatcheth away what was sown on his heart: such is he who is the sown by the road-side.

But Peter said, O Ananias! why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and secrete something from the price of the estate?

that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

And if now our gospel be hid, it is hid from those who are lost:

whose appearing is known by fanatical energy, displayed in all power, and signs, and lying miracles,

Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, prowleth around, seeking whom he may devour:

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the Devil, and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

and he seized on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

General references

and it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.