Mark 4:1-19 ▼

1 And he began agayne to teache by the sea syde: And ther gathered vnto hym much people, so greatly, that he entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea: and all the people was by the sea syde on the shore:

2 And he taught them many thinges by parables, and sayde vnto them in his doctrine.

3 Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe:

4 And it fortuned as he sowed, that some fell by the way syde, and the fowles of the ayre came, and deuoured it vp.

5 Some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not muche earth: and immediatly sprange vp, because it had not deapth of earth.

6 But assoone as the sonne was vp, it caught heate: and because it hadde not roote, it wythered away.

7 And some fell among thornes: and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, and it gaue no fruite.

8 And some fell vpon good grounde, and dyd yelde fruite, that sprang vp, and grewe, and brought foorth, some thirtie folde, and some sixtie folde, and some an hundred folde.

9 And he saide vnto them: He that hath eares to heare, let hym heare.

10 And when he was alone, they that were about hym, with the twelue, asked of hym the parable.

11 And he sayde vnto them: To you it is geuen to knowe the misterie of the kingdome of God: But vnto them that are without, all thynges are done by parables,

12 That when they see, they may see and not discerne: and whe they heare, they may heare and not vnderstande, lest at any tyme, they shoulde turne, and their sinnes shoulde be forgeuen them.

13 And he sayde vnto them: Knowe ye not this parable? And howe then wyll ye knowe all other parables?

14 The sower, soweth the worde.

15 And they that receaued seede by the way side, are those where the worde is sowe: but when they haue hearde, Satan cometh immediatly, and taketh away the word that was sowen in their heartes.

16 And lykewyse they that receaue seede into the stonie grounde, are they, which when they haue hearde the worde, at once receaue it with gladnesse.

17 Yet haue no roote in them selues, and so endure but a tyme: and anone when trouble and persecution aryseth for the wordes sake, immediatlye they are offended.

18 And those be they that receaue seede among thornes: and those I saye are such as heare the worde,

19 And the cares of this worlde, and the deceytfulnesse of ryches, and the lustes of other thynges enter in, and choke the worde, and it is made vnfruitefull.