Mark 4:1-11 ▼

1 And again he began to teach by the seaside. And a large crowd was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. And the whole crowd was on the land by the sea.

2 And then he taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

3 |Listen. Look, the sower who went out to sow.

4 And it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

5 And others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

6 And when the sun came up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought forth thirty times, and sixty times, and one hundred times.|

9 And he said, |Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.|

10 And when he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

11 And he said to them, |To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,