Matthew 13:7

And some fell among thorns.

More literally, into the thorns. He was thinking of some clump of thorny plants which had been burnt down according to Oriental custom, but not eradicated, before seed-growing time. In among these roots some seeds fell.

Thorns grew up.. choked them.

Or, as Wycliffe renders it, The thorns sprang up and strangled it. The thorns suffocated the growing plant, compressing it together, and thus preventing it from getting the free air and sunshine of heaven, and. sufficiency of the nourishment of the soil.-- Morison. The thorns overtopped the good seed, and thus they pined and dwindled in the shade. Here there was no lack of soil; it might be good soil, but what was deficient was. careful husbandry (light and air).-- Trench.