Mark:4:1-34

nasb@Mark:4:1 @He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

nasb@Mark:4:2 @And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

nasb@Mark:4:3" @Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

nasb@Mark:4:4 @as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

nasb@Mark:4:5" @Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

nasb@Mark:4:6" @And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

nasb@Mark:4:7" @Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

nasb@Mark:4:8" @Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

nasb@Mark:4:9 @And He was saying, " He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Mark:4:10 @As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

nasb@Mark:4:11 @And He was saying to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

nasb@Mark:4:12 @so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN."

nasb@Mark:4:13 @And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

nasb@Mark:4:14" @The sower sows the word.

nasb@Mark:4:15" @These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

nasb@Mark:4:16" @In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

nasb@Mark:4:17 @and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

nasb@Mark:4:18" @And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

nasb@Mark:4:19 @but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

nasb@Mark:4:20" @And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

nasb@Mark:4:21 @And He was saying to them, " A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

nasb@Mark:4:22" @ For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

nasb@Mark:4:23" @ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Mark:4:24 @And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.

nasb@Mark:4:25" @ For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."

nasb@Mark:4:26 @And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

nasb@Mark:4:27 @and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.

nasb@Mark:4:28" @The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

nasb@Mark:4:29" @But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

nasb@Mark:4:30 @And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

nasb@Mark:4:31" @It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

nasb@Mark:4:32 @yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."

nasb@Mark:4:33 @With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

nasb@Mark:4:34 @and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

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