13/05/2023
English Bible
Mark 4
4:1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
4:2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
4:3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
4:4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.
4:5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
4:6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
4:7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
4:8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
4:9 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
4:11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
4:12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
4:13 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
4:14 The farmer sows the word.
4:15 These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
4:16 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
4:17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble