Mark 4:1-6 ▼

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.