Mark 4: 1 - 20 | |
| 1 | Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. |
| 2 | And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: |
| 3 | "Listen! A sower went out to sow. |
| 4 | And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. |
| 5 | Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil; |
| 6 | and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away. |
| 7 | Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. |
| 8 | And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." |
| 9 | And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." |
| 10 | And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables. |
| 11 | And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; |
| 12 | so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven." |
| 13 | And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? |
| 14 | The sower sows the word. |
| 15 | And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them. |
| 16 | And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; |
| 17 | and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. |
| 18 | And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word, |
| 19 | but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. |
| 20 | But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." |
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