Matthew 13:18
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
KJV
ὑμεῖς οὖν ἀκούσατε τὴν παραβολὴν τοῦ σπείραντος.
Greek NT
Vos ergo audite parabolam seminantis.
Vulgate
Hear then ye the parable of the sower.
ASV
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
παραβολή
parabole
noun · 50×
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: σπείραντος | WH/Treg/NIV: σπείραντος | RP: σπείροντος
- σπείραντος — SBLGNT
- σπείραντος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- σπείροντος — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. After this, lest any one should suppose His words to be a mere accusation, and lest men should say, Being our enemy He is bringing these charges and calumnies against us; He introduces the prophet also, pronouncing the same judgment as Himself. For in them is fulfilled, says He, the prophecy of Esaias, which says, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand, and seei…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- Luke 8:5 — A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
- Luke 8:9 — And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
- Luke 8:11 — Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
- Mark 4:13 — And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
- Mark 4:13 — And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
- Matt 13:4 — And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
- Matt 13:11 — He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.