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!"
