Discovery BoxMatthew 13:20 
Context13:20 The 1 seed sown on rocky ground 2 is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
Matthew 7:24
Context7:24 “Everyone 3 who hears these words of mine and does them is like 4 a wise man 5 who built his house on rock.
Matthew 7:26
Context7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Matthew 13:22
Context13:22 The 6 seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth 7 choke the word, 8 so it produces nothing.
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.
3 tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
4 tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
5 tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.
6 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
7 tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”
8 sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.
