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 as he sowed, it happened that some seed fell on the road, and birds came and picked it up;

"They, however, paid no attention, but went off, one to his own farm, another to his business;

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

"And they all, without exception, proceeded to excuse themselves. The first told him. 'I have bought a field, and must needs go and see it. Pray have me excused.'

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Paul was about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews. "If it had been some misdemeanor or wicked villainy, it would have been within reason for me to listen to you Jews;

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.

When they had withdrawn they continued talking to one another.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

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

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Satan

"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.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.

But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He gripped the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

General references

and as he sowed, it happened that some seed fell on the road, and birds came and picked it up;