Mark 4:18
And other seeds represent those who are sown among thorns. These are people who heard 'the word,'
Matthew 13:22
And the person who was sown among the thorns is the one who hears the message, but the anxieties of the world [i.e., of life] and the deceptiveness of [material] riches choke the message and he becomes unproductive.
Mark 4:7
And other seeds fell among thorns which grew up and choked them so that they yielded no crop.
Luke 8:14
And those people [represented by the seed] that fell among thorns are the ones who have heard [the word], and as they go about their business, they become choked by worry, by money and by worldly pleasures, and produce no mature crop.
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