wmth - Mark:4-5

wmth@Mark:4:1 @ Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

wmth@Mark:4:2 @ Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

wmth@Mark:4:3 @ »Listen: the sower goes out to sow.«

wmth@Mark:4:4 @ As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.

wmth@Mark:4:5 @ Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

wmth@Mark:4:6 @ but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

wmth@Mark:4:7 @ Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.

wmth@Mark:4:8 @ But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold.«

wmth@Mark:4:9 @ »Listen,« He added, »every one who has ears to listen with!«

wmth@Mark:4:10 @ When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

wmth@Mark:4:11 @ »To you,« He replied, »has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;

wmth@Mark:4:12 @ that

wmth@Mark:4:13 @ »Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?« He added; »how then will you understand the rest of my parables?«

wmth@Mark:4:14 @ »What the sower sows is the Message.«

wmth@Mark:4:15 @ Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

wmth@Mark:4:16 @ In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,

wmth@Mark:4:17 @ but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

wmth@Mark:4:18 @ Others there are who receive the seed among the thorns: these are they who have heard the Message,

wmth@Mark:4:19 @ but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

wmth@Mark:4:20 @ Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.«

wmth@Mark:4:21 @ He went on to say, »Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand?

wmth@Mark:4:22 @ Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

wmth@Mark:4:23 @ Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!«

wmth@Mark:4:24 @ He also said to them, »Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.

wmth@Mark:4:25 @ For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away.«

wmth@Mark:4:26 @ Another saying of His was this: »The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:

wmth@Mark:4:27 @ he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

wmth@Mark:4:28 @ Of itself the land produces the crop– first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

wmth@Mark:4:29 @ But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come.«

wmth@Mark:4:30 @ Another saying of His was this: »How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

wmth@Mark:4:31 @ It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;

wmth@Mark:4:32 @ yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow.«

wmth@Mark:4:33 @ With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.

wmth@Mark:4:34 @ But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.

wmth@Mark:4:35 @ The same day, in the evening, He said to them, »Let us cross to the other side.«

wmth@Mark:4:36 @ So they got away from the crowd, and took Him –as He was– in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.

wmth@Mark:4:37 @ But a heavy squall came on, and the waves were now dashing into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

wmth@Mark:4:38 @ But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. »Rabbi,« they cried, »is it nothing to you that we are drowning?«

wmth@Mark:4:39 @ So He roused Himself and rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, »Silence! Be still!« The wind sank, and a perfect calm set in.

wmth@Mark:4:40 @ »Why are you so timid?« He asked; »have you still no faith?«

wmth@Mark:4:41 @ Then they were filled with terror, and began to say to one another, »Who is this, then? For even wind and sea obey Him.«

wmth@Mark:5:1 @ So they arrived at the opposite shore of the Lake, in the country of the Gerasenes.

wmth@Mark:5:2 @ At once, on His landing, there came from the tombs to meet Him a man possessed by a foul spirit.

wmth@Mark:5:3 @ This man lived among the tombs, nor could any one now secure him even with a chain;

wmth@Mark:5:4 @ for many a time he had been left securely bound in fetters and chains, but afterwards the chains lay torn link from link, and the fetters in fragments, and there was no one strong enough to master him.

wmth@Mark:5:5 @ And constantly, day and night, he remained among the tombs or on the hills, shrieking, and mangling himself with sharp stones.

wmth@Mark:5:6 @ And when he saw Jesus in the distance, he ran and threw himself at His feet,

wmth@Mark:5:7 @ crying out in a loud voice, »What hast Thou to do with me, Jesus, Son of God Most High? In God's name I implore Thee not to torment me.«

wmth@Mark:5:8 @ For He had said to him, »Foul spirit, come out of the man.«

wmth@Mark:5:9 @ Jesus also questioned him. »What is your name?« He said. »Legion,« he replied, »for there are a host of us.«

wmth@Mark:5:10 @ And he earnestly entreated Him not to send them away out of the country.

wmth@Mark:5:11 @ Feeding there, on the mountain slope, was a great herd of swine.

wmth@Mark:5:12 @ So they besought Jesus. »Send us to the swine,« they said, »so that we may enter into them.«

wmth@Mark:5:13 @ He gave them leave; and the foul spirits came out and entered into the swine, and the herd –about 2,000 in number– rushed headlong down the cliff into the Lake and were drowned in the Lake.

wmth@Mark:5:14 @ The swineherds fled, and spread the news in town and country. So the people came to see what it was that had happened;

wmth@Mark:5:15 @ and when they came to Jesus, they beheld the demoniac quietly seated, clothed and of sane mind– the man who had had the legion; and they were awe-stricken.

wmth@Mark:5:16 @ And those who had seen it told them the particulars of what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the swine.

wmth@Mark:5:17 @ Then they began entreating Him to depart from their district.

wmth@Mark:5:18 @ As He was embarking, the man who had been possessed asked permission to accompany Him.

wmth@Mark:5:19 @ But He would not allow it. »Go home to your family,« He said, »and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you.«

wmth@Mark:5:20 @ So the man departed, and related publicly everywhere in the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and all were astonished.

wmth@Mark:5:21 @ When Jesus had re-crossed in the boat to the other side, a vast multitude came crowding to Him; and He was on the shore of the Lake,

wmth@Mark:5:22 @ when there came one of the Wardens of the Synagogue –he was called Jair– who, on beholding Him, threw himself at His feet,

wmth@Mark:5:23 @ and besought Him with many entreaties. »My little daughter,« he said, »is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live.«

wmth@Mark:5:24 @ And Jesus went with him. And a dense crowd followed Him, and thronged Him on all sides.

wmth@Mark:5:25 @ Now a woman who for twelve years had suffered from haemorrhage,

wmth@Mark:5:26 @ and had undergone many different treatments under a number of doctors and had spent all she had without receiving benefit but on the contrary growing worse,

wmth@Mark:5:27 @ heard of Jesus. And she came in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak;

wmth@Mark:5:28 @ for she said, »If I but touch His clothes, I shall be cured.«

wmth@Mark:5:29 @ In a moment the flow of her blood ceased, and she felt in herself that her complaint was cured.

wmth@Mark:5:30 @ Immediately Jesus, well knowing that healing power had gone from within Him, turned round in the crowd and asked, »Who touched my clothes?«

wmth@Mark:5:31 @ »You see the multitude pressing you on all sides,« His disciples exclaimed, »and yet you ask, `Who touched me?'«

wmth@Mark:5:32 @ But He continued looking about to see the person who had done this,

wmth@Mark:5:33 @ until the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself at His feet, and told Him all the truth.

wmth@Mark:5:34 @ »Daughter,« He said, »your faith has cured you: go in peace, and be free from your complaint.«

wmth@Mark:5:35 @ While He is yet speaking, men come from the house to the Warden, and say, »Your daughter is dead: why trouble the Rabbi further?«

wmth@Mark:5:36 @ But Jesus, overhearing the words, said to the Warden, »Do not be afraid; only have faith.«

wmth@Mark:5:37 @ And He allowed no one to accompany Him except Peter and the brothers James and John.

wmth@Mark:5:38 @ So they come to the Warden's house. Here He gazes on a scene of uproar, with people weeping aloud and wailing.

wmth@Mark:5:39 @ He goes in. »Why all this outcry and loud weeping?« He asks; »the child is asleep, not dead.«

wmth@Mark:5:40 @ To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.

wmth@Mark:5:41 @ Then, taking her by the hand, He says to her, »Talitha, koum;« that is to say, »Little girl, I command you to wake!«

wmth@Mark:5:42 @ Instantly the little girl rises to her feet and begins to walk (for she was twelve years old). They were at once beside themselves with utter astonishment;

wmth@Mark:5:43 @ but He gave strict injunctions that the matter should not be made known, and directed them to give her something to eat.

wmth@Mark:6:1 @ Leaving that place He came into His own country, accompanied by His disciples.