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MATTHEW 13:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:5Matt 13:7
“And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.”
But when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. The scorching sun that kills the rootless growth is identified in verse 21 as trouble and persecution arising on account of the word. The person who receives the word with immediate joy but has no root falls away when the cost of following Jesus becomes real. The speed of the initial response is not the measure of the reception's genuineness.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:6

When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He then paid the honour due to His mother, as it is said, 'The same day Jesus went forth out of the house, and not down by the sea aide.

Chrysostom · 4th century

By the words, 'The same day,' he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed 'day' here after the Scripture manner signifies a period.

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 41

For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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