mnt - Mark:4:1-20

mnt@Mark:4:1 @ Afterwards Jesus began to teach by the seaside, and a vast multitude of people gathered about him, so that he went on board a boat on the sea, and sat there, while all the people stayed on shore, at the waters edge.

mnt@Mark:4:2 @ Then he began teaching them in parables many things. In his teaching he said to them.

mnt@Mark:4:3 @ "Listen! the Sower once went out to sow,

mnt@Mark:4:4 @ and as he sowed, it happened that some seed fell on the road, and birds came and picked it up;

mnt@Mark:4:5 @ some other seed fell on stony soil, where it had not much earth; and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil,

mnt@Mark:4:6 @ but when the sun rose it was scorched and withered away because it had no root.

mnt@Mark:4:7 @ Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so that it yielded no crop.

mnt@Mark:4:8 @ But some seed fell into good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up and increased, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.

mnt@Mark:4:9 @ "Any one who has ears to hear," he added, "let him listen to this."

mnt@Mark:4:10 @ When he was alone his followers and the Twelve began asking about the parables.

mnt@Mark:4:11 @ He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,

mnt@Mark:4:12 @ so that, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned.

mnt@Mark:4:13 @ "You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

mnt@Mark:4:14 @ "What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those on the wayside where the Word is sown.

mnt@Mark:4:15 @ As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

mnt@Mark:4:16 @ And like the sowing upon stony ground are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,

mnt@Mark:4:17 @ but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

mnt@Mark:4:18 @ There are others who are sown among thorns.

mnt@Mark:4:19 @ When they have heard the Word, the anxieties of life and the snares of wealth, and all sorts of other ambitions, come in to choke the Word, so that it proves unfruitful.

mnt@Mark:4:20 @ But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."