14 The farmer sows the word.(A)

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Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria

Now (A)those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

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Philip in Samaria

Those who had been scattered(A) preached the word wherever they went.(B)

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19 When anyone hears the word of (A)the kingdom and (B)does not understand it, (C)the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

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19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom(A) and does not understand it, the evil one(B) comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

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23 (A)since you have been born again, (B)not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through (C)the living and abiding word of God; 24 for

(D)“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,
25 (E)but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word (F)is the good news that was preached to you.

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23 For you have been born again,(A) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,(B) through the living and enduring word of God.(C) 24 For,

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[a](D)

And this is the word that was preached to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)

11 (A)Now the parable is this: The seed is (B)the word of God.

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11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.(A)

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37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

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37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.(A)

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“Listen! Behold, (A)a sower went out to sow.

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“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.(A)

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And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.

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They gathered in such large numbers(A) that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.

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because of (A)the hope (B)laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in (C)the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed (D)in the whole world it is (E)bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you (F)heard it and understood (G)the grace of God in truth,

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the faith and love that spring from the hope(A) stored up for you in heaven(B) and about which you have already heard in the true message(C) of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit(D) and growing throughout the whole world(E)—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.

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20 (A)Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
    who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

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20 how blessed you will be,
    sowing(A) your seed by every stream,(B)
    and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.(C)

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(A)just as those who (B)from the beginning were (C)eyewitnesses and (D)ministers of (E)the word (F)have delivered them to us,

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just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first(A) were eyewitnesses(B) and servants of the word.(C)

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