Mark 4:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:4-15

The Word stolen from the heart. Young preachers, in the strength of their convictions and the ardor of their benevolence, are often inspired with enthusiastic expectations concerning the results of the preaching of the gospel. It seems to them that the Word has only to be addressed to men's minds in order to meet with an eager, grateful, and immediate acceptance. As their experience enlarges, and as they learn in how many cases reason and conscience are silenced by the clamor of passion... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:5-17

The Word starved in the heart. The Christian preacher sometimes reason to exclaim, "Who hath believed our report?" But sometimes he has occasion to lament over those who apparently have believed but whose goodness proves, as time passes, "as the morning cloud and as the early dew, which goeth away." Our Lord warns us that we shall meet with such cases, which first excite hope and expectation, and then cloud the soul of the Christian labourer with disappointment and sorrow. Such are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:7-19

The Word choked in the heart. Thorns make a good hedge but a bad crop. The soil here described was in itself rich, good soil. But it could not grow both thorns and wheat, and, when occupied by the one, failed to yield the other. I. WHAT ARE THE THORNS THAT OVERGROW THE SOIL ? Thorns, thistles, brambles, briers, are signs of neglect. They are the emblems of the primeval curse, for the garden was by our first parents exchanged for the thorny wilderness. In our parable the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 4:1-9

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9.See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 4:1-9

Mark 4:1-9. And he began to teach by the seaside See notes on Matthew 13:1-17. He taught them many things by parables After the usual manner of the eastern nations, to make his instructions more agreeable to them, and to impress them the more upon attentive hearers. A parable signifies not only a simile, or comparison, and sometimes a proverb, but any kind of instructive speech, wherein spiritual things are explained and illustrated by natural. Proverbs 1:6, To understand a proverb and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 4:1-29

PARABLES54. The sower (Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-29; Luke 8:1-18)To visit all the towns of Galilee was a huge task. Jesus and his disciples were helped in this work by a group of women who went with them to look after their daily needs (Luke 8:1-3). Crowds of people came to see Jesus wherever he went, and were often a hindrance to the progress of the gospel. It seems that one reason Jesus began to teach extensively in parables was to separate those who were genuinely interested from those who... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 4:7

among = into. Greek. eis App-104 . choked. The Greek sun in sumpnigo , denotes suffocation by compression. it yielded no fruit . ADivine supplement. Occurs only here. no. Greek. ou . App-105 . Not the same word as in Mark 4:5 , but the same as in verses: Mark 4:17 , Mark 4:40 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 4:7

7. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit—This case is that of ground not thoroughly cleaned of the thistles, c. which, rising above the good seed, "choke" or "smother" it, excluding light and air, and drawing away the moisture and richness of the soil. Hence it "becomes unfruitful" ( :-); it grows, but its growth is checked, and it never ripens. The evil here is neither a hard nor a shallow soil—there is softness enough, and depth enough; but... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Mark 4:1-34

2. Jesus’ teaching in parables 4:1-34This is the first of three extended teaching sessions that Mark recorded (cf. Mark 7:1-23; Mark 13:3-37). Jesus’ three parables in this section describe the character of the messianic kingdom.Parables are illustrations that teach truth by comparisons (Gr. parabole, lit. "something thrown alongside," similitudes). Some are long stories, but others are short similes, metaphors, analogies, or proverbial sayings (cf. Mark 2:19-22; Mark 3:24-25; Mark 3:27). The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Mark 4:3-9

The parable of the soils 4:3-9 (cf. Matthew 13:3b-9; Luke 8:5-8)Jesus introduced and concluded this parable with instructions that His hearers should give it careful consideration (Mark 4:3; Mark 4:9, cf. Mark 4:23). Mark’s account of this parable is almost identical to Matthew’s. It is the only parable that Jesus spoke this day that all three synoptic evangelists recorded. Probably Jesus taught this parable many times during His ministry as an itinerant preacher, and the disciples were... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:4-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:5-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 4:7-19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 4:1-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 4:1-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 4:1-29

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 4:7

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 4:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Mark 4:1-34

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Mark 4:3-9

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