Mark 4:15
Good News Translation
Some people are like the seeds that fall along the path; as soon as they hear the message, Satan comes and takes it away.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.

Contemporary English Version
The seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But Satan soon comes and snatches it away from them.

New American Bible
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

these.

Mark 4:4 And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.

Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Isaiah 53:1 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Matthew 22:5 But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

Luke 8:12 And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved.

Luke 14:18,19 And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray thee, hold me excused. . . .

Acts 17:18-20,32 And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. . . .

Acts 18:14-17 And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O Jews, I should with reason bear with you. . . .

Acts 25:19,20 But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. . . .

Acts 26:31,32 And when they were gone aside, they spoke among themselves, saying: This man hath done nothing worthy of death or of bands. . . .

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

Satan.

Job 1:6-12 Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them. . . .

Zechariah 3:1 And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary.

Matthew 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Acts 5:3 But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price of the land?

2 Corinthians 2:11 That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

2 Corinthians 4:3,4 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:9 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders:

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 20:2,3,7,10 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Sower Explained
14He that soweth, soweth the word. 15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Mark 4:14
He that soweth, soweth the word.

Mark 4:16
And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:3
And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time.

Mark 4:14
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