Matthew 13:20 Cross References
Matthew 13:20
20: The rocky soil represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy.
Ezekiel 33:31
- So they come pretending to be sincere and sit before you listening. But they have no intention of doing what I tell them. They express love with their mouths, but their hearts seek only after money.
- You are very entertaining to them, like someone who sings love songs with a beautiful voice or plays fine music on an instrument. They hear what you say, but they don't do it!
Psalms 106:12
- Then at last his people believed his promises. Then they finally sang his praise.
- Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn't wait for his counsel!
John 5:35
- John shone brightly for a while, and you benefited and rejoiced.
Mark 6:20
- And Herod respected John, knowing that he was a good and holy man, so he kept him under his protection. Herod was disturbed whenever he talked with John, but even so, he liked to listen to him.
Psalms 78:34
- When God killed some of them, the rest finally sought him. They repented and turned to God.
- Then they remembered that God was their rock, that their redeemer was the Most High.
- But they followed him only with their words; they lied to him with their tongues.
- Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.
Isaiah 58:2
- Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to hear my laws. You would almost think this was a righteous nation that would never abandon its God. They love to make a show of coming to me and asking me to take action on their behalf.
2 Chronicles 24:14
- When all the repairs were finished, they brought the remaining money to the king and Jehoiada. It was used to make utensils for the Temple of the LORD--utensils for worship services and for burnt offerings, including ladles and other vessels made of gold and silver. And the burnt offerings were sacrificed continually in the Temple of the LORD during the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.
Mark 4:16
- The rocky soil represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy.
- But like young plants in such soil, their roots don't go very deep. At first they get along fine, but they wilt as soon as they have problems or are persecuted because they believe the word.
Matthew 13:5
- Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The plants sprang up quickly,
- but they soon wilted beneath the hot sun and died because the roots had no nourishment in the shallow soil.
2 Chronicles 24:2
- Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.
1 Samuel 11:13
- But Saul replied, "No one will be executed today, for today the LORD has rescued Israel!"
- Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us all go to Gilgal to reaffirm Saul's kingship."
- So they went to Gilgal, and in a solemn ceremony before the LORD they crowned him king. Then they offered peace offerings to the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.
Acts 8:13
- Then Simon himself believed and was baptized. He began following Philip wherever he went, and he was amazed by the great miracles and signs Philip performed.
2 Chronicles 24:6
- So the king called for Jehoiada the high priest and asked him, "Why haven't you demanded that the Levites go out and collect the Temple taxes from the towns of Judah and from Jerusalem? Moses, the servant of the LORD, levied this tax on the community of Israel in order to maintain the Tabernacle of the Covenant. "
Galatians 4:14
- But even though my sickness was revolting to you, you did not reject me and turn me away. No, you took me in and cared for me as though I were an angel from God or even Christ Jesus himself.
- Where is that joyful spirit we felt together then? In those days, I know you would gladly have taken out your own eyes and given them to me if it had been possible.