MARK 4

And again He began to teach by the sea. And a

great multitude was

gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and

sat in it on the

sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing

the sea.

2 Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to

them in

His teaching:

3 "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And

it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside;

and the

birds of the air came and devoured it.

5 Some fell on stony ground,

where it did not have much earth; and

immediately it sprang up

because it had no depth of earth.

6 But when the sun was up it was

scorched, and because it had no root

it withered away.

7 And some seed

fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked

it, and it

yielded no crop. 8 But other seed fell on good ground and

yielded a

crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some

thirtyfold, some

sixty, and some a hundred."

9 And He said to them, "He who has ears

to hear, let him hear!"