Mark 4:1-9 ▼

1 And again he began to teach by the sea; and a great multitude came together to him, so that he went into a ship, and sat in the sea: and the whole multitude was on the land near the sea.

2 And he taught them many things in parables, and said to them in his teaching:

3 Hear; Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

4 and it came to pass, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and ate it up.

5 Other seed fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth: and it immediately sprung up, because it had no depth of earth.

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

7 And other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it produced no fruit.

8 And other seed fell in the good ground, and produced fruit that grew up and increased, and produced, one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundred.

9 And he said: He that has ears to hear, let him hear.