Teks -- Matthew 13:19 (NET)

13:19 When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

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Robertson: Mat 13:19 - When anyone heareth

When anyone heareth ( pantos akouontos ).

Genitive absolute and present participle, "while everyone is listening and not comprehending"(mē sunientos ), "not putting together"or "not grasping."Perhaps at that very moment Jesus observed a puzzled look on some faces.

Robertson: Mat 13:19 - Cometh the evil one and snatcheth away

Cometh the evil one and snatcheth away ( erchetai ho ponēros kai harpazei ).

The birds pick up the seeds while the sower sows. The devil is busy with his job of snatching or seizing like a bandit or rogue the word of the kingdom before it has time even to sprout. How quickly after the sermon the impression is gone. "This is he"(houtos estin ). Matthew, like Mark, speaks of the people who hear the words as the seed itself. That creates some confusion in this condensed form of what Jesus actually said, but the real point is clear.

Robertson: Mat 13:19 - The seed sown in his heart

The seed sown in his heart ( to esparmenon en tēi kardiāi autou , perfect passive participle of speirō , to sow)

and "the man sown by the wayside"(ho para tēn hodon spareis , aorist passive participle, along the wayside) are identified. The seed in the heart is not of itself responsible, but the man who lets the devil snatch it away.

Vincent: Mat 13:19 - When any one heareth

When any one heareth

The rendering would be made even more graphic by preserving the continuous force of the present tense, as exhibiting action in progress, and the simultaneousness of Satan's work with that of the gospel instructor. " While any one is hearing, the evil one is coming and snatching away, just as the birds do not wait for the sower to be out of the way, but are at work while he is sowing.

Vincent: Mat 13:19 - He which received seed

He which received seed ( ὁ σπαρείς )

Lit., and much better, Rev., He that was sown; identifying the seed of the figure with the man signified.

Wesley: Mat 13:19 - When any one heareth the word, and considereth it not

The first and most general cause of unfruitfulness.

Wesley: Mat 13:19 - The wicked one cometh

Either inwardly; filling the mind with thoughts of other things; or by his agent. Such are all they that introduce other subjects, when men should be considering what they have heard.

Clarke: Mat 13:19 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom - Viz. the preaching of the Gospel of Christ

Clarke: Mat 13:19 - And understandeth it not

And understandeth it not - Μη συνιεντος, perhaps more properly, regardeth it not, does not lay his heart to it

Clarke: Mat 13:19 - The wicked one

The wicked one - Ο πονηρος, from πονος, labor, toil, he who distresses and torments the soul. Mark, Mar 4:15, calls him ὁ σατανας, the adversary or opposer, because he resists men in all their purposes of amendment, and, to the utmost of his power opposes, in order to frustrate, the influences of Divine grace upon the heart. In the parallel place in Luke, Luk 8:12, he is called ὁ διαβολος, the devil, from διαβαλλειν, to shoot, or dart through. In allusion to this meaning of the name, St. Paul, Eph 6:16, speaks of the fiery Darts of the wicked one. It is worthy of remark, that the three evangelists should use each a different appellative of this mortal enemy of mankind; probably to show that the devil, with all his powers and properties, opposes every thing that tends to the salvation of the soul

Clarke: Mat 13:19 - Catcheth away

Catcheth away - Makes the utmost haste to pick up the good seed, lest it should take root in the heart

A careless inattentive hearer is compared to the way side - his heart is an open road, where evil affections, and foolish and hurtful desires, continually pass and repass, without either notice or restraint. "A heart where Satan has"(as one terms it) "ingress, egress, regress, and progress: in a word, the devil’ s thoroughfare."

Calvin: Mat 13:19 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not // That which was sown in their heart

Mat 13:19.When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not He mentions, in the first place, the barren and uncultivated, who do not receive the seed within, because there is no preparation in their hearts. Such persons he compares to a stiff and dry soil, like what we find on a public road, which is trodden down, and becomes hard, like a pavement. I wish that we had not occasion to see so many of this class at the present day, who come forward to hear, but remain in a state of amazement, and acquire no relish for the word, and in the end differ little from blocks or stones. Need we wonder that they utterly vanish away?

That which was sown in their heart This expression, which Christ employs, is not strictly accurate, and yet it is not without meaning; for the wickedness and depravity of men do not make the word to lose its own nature, or to cease to have the character of seed. This must be carefully observed, that we may not suppose the favors of God to cease to be what they are, though the good effect of them does not reach us. With respect to God, the word is sown in the hearts, but it is far from being true, that the hearts of all receive with meekness what is planted in them, as James (Jas 1:21) exhorts us to receive the word. So then the Gospel is always a fruitful seed as to its power, but not as to its produce. ¹⁹⁹

Luke adds, that the devil ²⁰⁰ taketh away the seed out of their heart, that they may not believe and be saved Hence we infer that, as hungry birds are wont to do at the time of sowing, this enemy of our salvation, as soon as the doctrine is delivered, watches and rushes forth to seize it, before it acquires moisture and springs up. It is no ordinary praise of the word, when it is pronounced to be the cause of our salvation.

Defender: Mat 13:19 - the wicked one

"The god of this world" (Satan) blinds the minds of unbelievers (2Co 4:3, 2Co 4:4)."

TSK: Mat 13:19 - the word // and understandeth // the wicked // This

the word : Mat 4:23; Luk 8:11-15, Luk 9:2, Luk 10:9; Act 20:25, Act 28:23; Rom 14:17; 2Co 4:2, 2Co 4:3; Eph 3:8

and understandeth : Pro 1:7, Pro 1:20-22, Pro 2:1-6, Pro 17:16, Pro 18:1, Pro 18:2; Joh 3:19, Joh 3:20, Joh 8:43, Joh 18:38; Act 17:32, Act 18:15, Act 24:25, Act 24:26, Act 25:19, Act 25:20, Act 26:31, Act 26:32; Rom 1:28, Rom 2:8; 2Th 2:12; Heb 2:1; 1Jo 5:20

the wicked : Mat 13:38; Mar 4:15; Luk 8:12; 1Jo 2:13, 1Jo 2:14, 1Jo 3:12, 1Jo 5:18

This : Mat 13:4

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Poole: Mat 13:19 - the word of the kingdom

Mark hath this thus, Mar 4:14,15 , The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way-side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. Luke hath it thus, Luk 8:11,12 , The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. From Luke we learn that the seed is the word; from Mark, that the sower is the preacher, Christ in the first place, then all who derive from him as his ministers, and are exercised in preaching the gospel, which Matthew calleth

the word of the kingdom because it is the instrument by which God raised up Christ’ s kingdom on earth, both in the church, and in particular souls, and by which he prepareth men for the kingdom of glory. This is a mighty commendation of the word. The soil is the heart, the soul of man. Now there are some hearers to whom the word preached is like seed that a sower throws upon some footpath, or highway, the plough never turneth the earth upon it, or the harrow never goeth over it; so it lieth bare, and is trodden down by the feet of passengers, and the fowls of the air come and pick it up. So, saith our Saviour, there are some that hear the word, but never meditate upon it, never lay it to their hearts, never cover it with second thoughts; the wicked ones, the devils, who are afraid of the power of the word digested, (like the fowls of the air), by suggesting other thoughts, or by presenting other objects to them, catch away the word that was sown in their hearts. These are they whom I compared to the highway ground receiving the seed.

But some may say, how was it sown in their hearts, if the devil could thus catch it away?

Answer: By the heart here is meant the soul, which hath several powers and faculties. Every thing we hear goeth into our heart, in some sense. As the heart may signify the imaginative power of our soul, or that power by which we take the notion of a thing, the word doth enter into sinners’ hearts, so far as they spend some thoughts upon it, and gain some knowledge and notion of it, yea, they may entertain it with some sudden and temporary affection and passion: indeed it is never so in their hearts, as that they truly believe it, or that their wills are conquered into the obedience of it.

Haydock: Mat 13:19 - When any one heareth // There cometh the wicked one, Greek: o poneros

When any one heareth. This seed faileth upon four different kinds of soil, which represent four different sorts of persons. The 1st, such as continue obdurate in vice; the 2d, such as are unsteady and inconstant in their good resolutions; the 3d, such as are absorbed in the cares and pleasures of life; the 4th, such as have every proper disposition for receiving the word of God with fruit. ---

There cometh the wicked one, Greek: o poneros, the devil, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts, lest believing they should be saved. (Haydock)

Gill: Mat 13:19 - When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom // and understandeth it not // Then cometh the wicked one // catcheth away that which is sown in his heart // this is he which receiveth the seed by the way side

When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom,.... Hence it appears, that by the "seed" in the parable is meant the Gospel, called the "word of the kingdom": because it treats of the king Messiah, of his person, office, and grace; and of his kingdom, and the administration of it by him, under the present dispensation; of the kingdom of grace saints enjoy now, and of the kingdom of heaven they shall enter into hereafter, through the grace and righteousness of Christ. Now such a hearer of this word is here described, who hears it accidentally, and only externally; hears the sound of it with his ears,

and understandeth it not with his heart. He is one that is careless and inattentive, negligent and forgetful; has some slight notions of things as he hears, but these pass away as they come; his affections are not at all touched, nor his judgment informed by them, but remains as stupid, and as unconcerned as ever; his heart is not opened to attend to, and receive the word, but continues hard and obdurate; and is like the common and beaten road, that is trodden down by everyone, and is not susceptible of the seed, that falls upon it.

Then cometh the wicked one, Satan, the devil, Mar 4:15 who is, by way of eminency, so called, being the first creature that became wicked, and the worst that is so; who is entirely and immutably wicked; whose whole work and employment lies in wickedness; and who, was the original cause of the wickedness that is among men, and which he is continually instigating and promoting: so the Jews frequently call ^q Samael, by whom they mean the devil, Samael, הדשע, "the wicked". This evil spirit, as soon as ever he observes one hearing the word, especially that has not been used to attend, comes immediately, and, as he is hearing,

catcheth away that which is sown in his heart: not the grace of God, which being once implanted in the heart, can never be taken away by Satan; but the word which was sown, not in his understanding, in a spiritual sense, nor even in his affections, so as to love it, delight, and take pleasure in it; much less in his heart, so as to become the engrafted word able to save, or so as to believe in it, and in Christ revealed by it; but in his memory, and that but very slightly neither; for the heart sometimes means the memory; see Luk 2:51. Besides, the word only fell "upon", not "into" his heart, as into the good ground, as the metaphor in the parable shows; and it made no impression, nor was it inwardly received, but as soon as ever dropped, was "catched" away by the enemy; not by frightening him out of it, by persecution, as the stony ground hearer; nor by filling the mind with worldly cares, as the thorny ground hearer; but by various suggestions and temptations, darting in thoughts, presenting objects, and so diverted his mind from the word, and fixed his attention elsewhere; which is done at once, at an unawares, secretly, and without any notice of the person himself; so that the word is entirely lost to him, and he does not so much as remember the least thing he has been hearing:

this is he which receiveth the seed by the way side; such an hearer is comparable to such ground, on whom the word has no more effect, than seed sown upon a common beaten path.