nsb - Mark:4:1-20

nsb@Mark:4:1 @ Again he taught a very great crowd by the seaside. He sat in a boat while the crowd was on the land.

nsb@Mark:4:2 @ He taught them many things by illustrations and said to them:

nsb@Mark:4:3 @ »Listen, the sower went out to sow.

nsb@Mark:4:4 @ »As he sowed some seed fell by the road and the birds came and devoured it.

nsb@Mark:4:5 @ »Other seed fell on the rocky ground and did not have good soil. Immediately it sprang up, because it had no good soil

nsb@Mark:4:6 @ it became scorched when the sun came up. Then it withered because it had no root.

nsb@Mark:4:7 @ »Some seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked it so it could yield no fruit.

nsb@Mark:4:8 @ »Others fell on good ground and yielded fruit. It grew up, increased and produced thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundred fold.«

nsb@Mark:4:9 @ He continued: »He who has ears to hear let him hear.«

nsb@Mark:4:10 @ When he was alone his followers including the twelve asked about the illustrations.

nsb@Mark:4:11 @ He told them: »The secret of the kingdom of God is given to you. Illustrations are spoken to outsiders.

nsb@Mark:4:12 @ »So that seeing they may see and not perceive. And hearing they may hear and not understand. Otherwise they might repent and be forgiven.«

nsb@Mark:4:13 @ Then he asked: »Do you not understand this illustration? How will you understand any of the illustrations?

nsb@Mark:4:14 @ »The sower sows the word.

nsb@Mark:4:15 @ »These are they by the wayside where the word is sown. When they have heard; Satan comes and takes away the word that has been sown in them.

nsb@Mark:4:16 @ »The same is so of the word sown upon the rocky places. When they have heard the word and receive it with joy,

nsb@Mark:4:17 @ they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while. They stumble when tribulation or persecution arise.

nsb@Mark:4:18 @ »There is the word sown among the thorns. These have heard the word,

nsb@Mark:4:19 @ but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.

nsb@Mark:4:20 @ »Those who represent that sown upon the good soil hear the word and accept it. They bear fruit, thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundred fold.«