Mark 4:1-11 ▼

1 AND again he began to teach by the sea side: and a vast multitude was assembled about him, so that he went into a vessel to sit down on the sea, and all the multitude was on the land close by the sea.

2 And he taught them in parables many things, and said unto them in the course of his teaching,

3 Hear me! Behold, a sower went out to sow;

4 and it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.

5 And some fell on a rocky soil, where it had not much mold, and immediately it sprung up, because it had no depth of earth:

6 and when the sun arose it was scorched up; and because it had not root, it withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it, and it produced no fruit.

8 And some fell on good ground, and produced fruit, growing up, and increasing, and yielded one part thirty fold, and another sixty, and another an hundred.

9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10 But when they were alone, those who were about him with the twelve, asked him the meaning of the parable.

11 And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are without, all things are in parables: