Matthew Chapter 13 verse 7 Holy Bible
And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:
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And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
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and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;
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And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
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Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:
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and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - And some fell among thorns; upon the thorns (Revised Version); which were sure to be close by (cf. Jeremiah 4:3). And the thorns sprang up (grew up, Revised Version, ἀνέβησαν), and choked them. Whether brambles or merely spinous weeds (on their abundance, see Tristram, 'Nat. Hist. of Bible,' p. 423, edit. 1889) are here referred to is not certain. Even the former might be comparatively low in sowing time, and only as they "grew up" cause serious injury to the wheat.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Among thorns.--Literally, the thorns, so familiar to the husbandman. These were not visible at the time of sowing. The ground had been so far cleared, but the roots were left below the surface, and their growth and that of the grain went on simultaneously, and ended in the survival, not of the fittest, but of the strongest. The ears shot up, and did not die suddenly, as in the preceding case, but were slowly strangled till they died away.
