Mark 4:14

14 "What the sower sows is the Message.

Mark 4:14 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 4:14

The sower soweth the word.
] Though our Lord thought fit to give the above gentle rebuke to his disciples for their dulness; yet he condescends to favour them with an interpretation of the above parable, which here begins: by this it appears, that the seed in the parable, before delivered, and which fell on different sorts of ground, is the word of God, which was preached to hearers of different dispositions: the word is the word of life and truth; the word of peace and reconciliation; the word of faith and righteousness; the word of salvation; the word which publishes and declares all these to be in and by Jesus Christ.

Mark 4:14 In-Context

12 that "`They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

13 "Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"

14 "What the sower sows is the Message.

15 Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

16 In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,