Mark 4:1-11 ▼

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.

2 And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

3 |Listen [to this]! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

4 as he was sowing, some [seed] fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

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.

6 |And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 |Other [seed] fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

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.|

9 And He was saying, |He who has ears to hear, let him hear.|

10 As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, [began] asking Him [about] the parables.

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,