“And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,”
Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word — the thorny-ground people also hear the word — they are not path-people who never receive it or rocky-ground people who quickly abandon it. They are people who hear and apparently continue with the word, but whose lives contain competing priorities that gradually crowd out the word's fruitfulness.
Church Fathers on Mark 4:18
Although the Lord appears in the transactions mentioned above to neglect His mother, nevertheless He honours her; since on her account He goes forth about the borders of the sea.
For if we look into the Gospel of Matthew, it appears that this same teaching of the Lord at the sea, was delivered on the same day as the former. For after the conclusion of the first sermon, Matthew immediately subjoins, saying, 'The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side.'
But He began to teach at the sea, that the place of His teaching might point out the bitter feelings and instability of His hearers.
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