“And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:”
King James Version (KJV)
13:8 Good ground - Soft, not like that by the highway side; deep, not like the stony ground; purged, not full of thorns.
Mt 13:7 And some fell among thorns. More literally, "into the thorns". The traveler, today, finds Palestine literally a land of thorns, of thistles, brambles, and thorny bushes. Thorns sprung up, and choked them. Or, as Wycliffe renders it, "The thorns sprang up and strangled it". The thorns suffocated the growing plant.
And some fell among thorns: and the thornes sprung vp, & choked them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:
- American Standard Version (1901)
And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
- Basic English Bible
and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;
- Darby Bible
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Webster's Bible
Some falls among the thorns; but the thorns spring up and stifle it.
- Weymouth Bible
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
- World English Bible
And other seedis felden among thornes; and thornes woxen vp, and strangeleden hem.
- Wycliffe Bible
and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,
- Youngs Literal Bible