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17 for assuredly, I say to you athat many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.  

The Parable of the Sower Explained

18 a“Therefore hear the parable of the sower:  
19 When anyone hears the word aof the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.  
20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately areceives it with joy;  
21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when atribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately bhe stumbles.  
22 Now ahe who received seed bamong the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.  
23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears afruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”  

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Matthew 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom - Viz. the preaching of the Gospel of Christ.

And understandeth it not - , perhaps more properly, regardeth it not, does not lay his heart to it.

The wicked one - , from , labor, toil, he who distresses and torments the soul. Mark, Mark 4:15, calls him ̔ , the adversary or opposer, because he resists men in all their purposes of amendment, and, to the utmost of his power opposes, in order to frustrate, the influences of Divine grace upon the heart. In the parallel place in Luke, Luke 8:12, he is called ̔ , the devil, from , to shoot, or dart through. In allusion to this meaning of the name, St. Paul, Ephesians 6:16, speaks of the fiery Darts of the wicked one. It is worthy of remark, that the three evangelists should use each a different appellative of this mortal enemy of mankind; probably to show that the devil, with all his powers and properties, opposes every thing that tends to the salvation of the soul.

Catcheth away - Makes the utmost haste to pick up the good seed, lest it should take root in the heart.

A careless inattentive hearer is compared to the way side - his heart is an open road, where evil affections, and foolish and hurtful desires, continually pass and repass, without either notice or restraint. "A heart where Satan has" (as one terms it) "ingress, egress, regress, and progress: in a word, the devil' s thoroughfare."




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 13:19:

Matthew 6:13
Matthew 13:8
Luke 8:5
1 Peter 3:13

 

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